The role of contrast enhanced transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis and in the morphological and functional characterization of acute aortic syndromes

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 31-38

  Agricola, Eustachio ^a   Slavich, Massimo ^a   Bertoglio, Luca ^a   Fisicaro, Andrea ^a   Oppizzi, Michele ^a   Marone, Enrico ^a   Melissano, Germano ^a   Tufaro, Vincenzo ^a   Margonato, Alberto ^a   Chiesa, Roberto ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute aortic syndromes; Aortic dissection; Contrast echocardiography; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; SONOVUE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACUTE AORTIC SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTIC ULCER; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULCER;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; SYNDROME; ULCER;

EID: 84899049678     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-013-0290-y     Document Type: Article

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