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Echocardiography

Known as: Diagnostic ultrasound of heart, Echocardiography, Transthoracic, Ultrasonic cardiography 
A procedure that uses ultrasonic waves directed over the chest wall to obtain a graphic record of the heart's position, motion of the walls, or… 
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Narrower (8)

2D EchocardiographyEchocardiography, Cross-SectionalEchocardiography, DopplerEchocardiography, M-Mode
Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium TerminologyContrast echocardiography procedureECHOCARDIOGRAPHEchocardiogram (image)

Broader (3)

Heart Function TestsUltrasonographycardiography

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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Double Multielectrode Mapping Catheters Facilitate Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Focal Atrial Fibrillation Originating from Pulmonary Veins
Ablation of Focal AF. Introduction: Several reports have demonstrated that focal atrial fibrillation (AF) may arise from… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Efficacy of a simple left atrial procedure for chronic atrial fibrillation in mitral valve operations.
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Noninvasive evaluation of local myocardial thickening and its color-coded imaging
For the noninvasive diagnosis of heart disease based on the acoustic characteristics of the heart muscle, we have developed a new… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Comparison of enalapril versus nifedipine to decrease left ventricular hypertrophy in systemic hypertension (the PRESERVE trial).
Review
1994
Review
1994
Percutaneous closure of the small patent ductus arteriosus using occluding spring coils.
Review
1988
Review
1988
Dipyridamole cardiac imaging.
Review
1986
Review
1986
Sudden death and the competitive athlete: perspectives on preparticipation screening studies.
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Two dimensional echocardiographic evaluation of exercise-induced left and right ventricular asynergy: correlation with thallium scanning.
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Echocardiography in bacterial endocarditis.
We examined 129 standard M-mode echocardiograms obtained in 65 patients (16 to 73 years old) with bacterial endocarditis. Twenty… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Noninvasive Visualization of the Left Main Coronary Artery by Cross‐sectional Echocardiography
SUMMARY Real time cross-sectional echocardiographic studies of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) were performed in 15 normal… 
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