Interobserver agreement of the echocardiographic diagnosis of LV hypertrabeculation/noncompaction

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1252-1257

  Stöllberger, Claudia ^a   Gerecke, Birgit ^b   Engberding, Rolf ^b   Grabner, Bernhard ^a   Wandaller, Cosima ^a   Finsterer, Josef ^a   Gietzelt, Matthias ^c   Balzereit, Andreas ^b  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^b Klinikum Wolfsburg   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cardiomyopathy; interobserver agreement; noncompaction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHORDA TENDINEA; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; GENERAL PATHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTEROBSERVER AGREEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION; AUSTRIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; GERMANY; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; ISOLATED NONCOMPACTION OF THE VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIUM; LABORATORY PROFICIENCY TESTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946730834     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.04.026     Document Type: Article

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