Comparison of intracardiac echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography for imaging of the right and left atrial appendages

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1890-1897

  Anter, Elad ^a   Silverstein, Joshua ^a   Tschabrunn, Cory M ^a   Shvilkin, Alexei ^a   Haffajee, Charles I ^a   Zimetbaum, Peter J ^a   Buxton, Alfred E ^a   Josephson, Mark E ^a   Gelfand, Eli ^a   Manning, Warren J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendage; Arrhythmia; Atrial fibrillation; Echocardiography; Imaging; Pulmonary vein isolation; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHADS2 SCORE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84938689992     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.07.015     Document Type: Article

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