Multimodality Imaging of Pericardial Disease

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Cremer, Paul C ^a   Kwon, Deborah H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute pericarditis; Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Computed tomography; Constrictive pericarditis; Echocardiography; Pericardial effusion; Recurrent pericarditis

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE PERICARDITIS; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART EDEMA; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; ORGANIZING PERICARDITIS; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIECTOMY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; CARDIAC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; PERICARDITIS; PROCEDURES;

CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; HUMANS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PERICARDITIS;

EID: 84924794737     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-015-0577-9     Document Type: Review

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