Real time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography: A novel approach for the assessment of prosthetic heart valves

Echocardiography

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 188-196

  Anwar, Ashraf M ^a,b   Nosir, Youssef F M ^a,b   Alasnag, Mirvat ^a   Chamsi Pasha, Hassan ^a  

^a KING FAHD ARMED FORCES HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Prosthetic valve; Real time three dimensional echocardiography; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MITRAL VALVE; PANNUS; PARAAORTIC ABSCESS; PARAVALVULAR LEAK; PARAVALVULAR REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHETIC VALVE DEGENERATION; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; PROSTHETIC VALVE VEGETATION; REAL TIME THREE DIMENSIONAL TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

PROSTHETIC VALVE; REAL TIME THREE-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BIOPROSTHESIS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84897091400     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12327     Document Type: Article

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