Accuracy of conventional transthoracic echocardiography for the diagnosis of intracardiac right-to-left shunt: A meta-analysis of prospective studies

Echocardiography

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1036-1048

  Mojadidi, Mohammad Khalid ^a   Winoker, Jared S ^a   Roberts, Scott C ^a   Msaouel, Pavlos ^a   Zaman, Muhammad Omer ^b   Gevorgyan, Rubine ^c   Tobis, Jonathan M ^c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Patent foramen ovale; Right to left shunt; Transesophageal echocardiogram; Transthoracic echocardiogram

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMBASE; HEART CYCLE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MICROBUBBLE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908253531     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12583     Document Type: Article

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