Saline contrast echocardiography for the detection of patent foramen ovale in hypoxia: A validation study using intracardiac echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 420-427

  Fenster, Brett E ^a   Curran Everett, Douglas ^a,b   Freeman, Andrew M ^a   Weinberger, Howard D ^a   Kern Buckner, J ^a   Carroll, John D ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Food Science and Human Nutrition   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

intra cardiac echocardiography; patent foramen ovale; right to left shunt; saline contrast

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; REST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALINE CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY; VALSALVA MANEUVER; AGED; ANOXIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART CATHETER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANOXIA; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CARDIAC CATHETERS; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84898015371     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12403     Document Type: Article

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