The Efficacy of Contrast Transthoracic Echocardiography and Contrast Transcranial Doppler for the Detection of Patent Foramen Ovale Related to Cryptogenic Stroke
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Transmitral Doppler: a new transthoracic contrast method for patent foramen ovale detection and quantification.
OBJECTIVES This study compared a new transthoracic echocardiographic (TTE) method for detection of right to left bubble passage, transmitral Doppler (TMD), against two-dimensional (2D) TTE contrast study and the gold standard, of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), and assessed its utility in quantitative assessment of patent foramen ovales (PFO). BACKGROUND Current TTE methods are relati...
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عنوان ژورنال: BioMed Research International
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2314-6133,2314-6141
DOI: 10.1155/2020/1513409