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Transthoracic Speckle Tracking Echocardiography for the Quantitative Assessment of Left Ventricular Myocardial Deformation
Published on: October 20, 2016
Tornado-like appearance of spontaneous echo contrast assessed by real-time 3D transesophageal echocardiography
Kyoko Otani1, Masaaki Takeuchi2, Hiromi Nakai1
1Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, 1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, 807-8555, Japan.
Abstract:
We report a case showing that real-time 3D transesophageal echocardiography provides unique information about the dynamic nature of spontaneous echo contrast (SEC) in 3D space and has the potential to provide better understanding of SEC.
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