Sensitivity of brachial versus femoral vein injection of agitated saline to detect right-to-left shunts with transcranial doppler

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 992-996

  Gevorgyan, Rubine ^a   Perlowski, Alice ^b   Shenoda, Michael ^c   Mojadidi, M Khalid ^a   Agrawal, Harsh ^a   Tobis, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Sansum Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Adults; ASD PDA PFO; CLAS; Closure; CONA congential heart disease; Imaging; ITTE; TTE TEE

Indexed keywords

AGITATED SALINE; ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CONTRAST MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL VEIN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIGRAINE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VASCULAR ACCESS; AGED; ARM; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC USE; ECHOGRAPHY; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84930092345     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.25391     Document Type: Article

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