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Focused Transthoracic Echocardiography
Postgraduate Medicine, 2010Caring for critically ill patients requires rapid and accurate diagnosis followed by prompt interventions. The physical examination remains an important part of the assessment of such patients, but it has been shown to have a low sensitivity and specificity in judging left ventricular function and intravascular volume.
Roger D Smalligan, Faisal Khasawneh
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Cardioversions and Transthoracic Echocardiography
Anesthesiology Clinics, 2017Patients with atrial fibrillation and flutter routinely require transesophageal echocardiography with cardioversion. It is not uncommon to encounter patients with reduced ejection fractions, coronary artery disease, prior cardiac surgery, or obstructive sleep apnea.
Ronak, Shah, Elizabeth, Zhou
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Transthoracic and Transoesophageal Echocardiography: A Systematic Review of Feasibility and Impact on Diagnosis, Management and Outcome After Cardiac Surgery [PDF]
Anaesthesia, 2016 Transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography are increasingly used as tools to improve clinical assessment following cardiac surgery. However, most physicians are not trained in echocardiography, and there is no widespread agreement on the ...
Alistair Royse +2 more
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Transthoracic echocardiography
2011The echocardiogram is an extremely useful and versatile technique that enables collection of all relevant information on morphology and function of the heart in a wide range of clinical situations.Echocardiography has been pivotal in the development of modern cardiology and is an indispensable tool to effectively ...
Miguel Ángel García Fernández +1 more
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Esophageal Carcinoma and Transthoracic Echocardiography
Echocardiography, 2013We report a rare case of a patient with esophageal carcinoma diagnosed using transthoracic echocardiography. This examination proved to be useful in the identification of a paracardiac mediastinal mass. Images of the esophageal carcinoma, of the stent in the esophagus, and the bubbles inside the stent generated with the ingestion of a carbonated ...
Tomás F, Cianciulli +5 more
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Appropriate Use of Transthoracic Echocardiography
The American Journal of Cardiology, 2010The appropriateness criteria for echocardiography were published in 2007 and classified potential procedural indications as appropriate, uncertain, or inappropriate. The appropriate use rates for outpatient transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) by cardiologists have not been well defined. The objective of the present study was to prospectively determine
Gowtham, Rao +3 more
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