Why the study?
Does transthoracic echocardiography with harmonic frequency imaging provide comparable left atrial appendage assessment to transesophageal echocardiography?
Population
25 patients (9 men, 16 women, mean age 51 years, range 20-82)
Comparison
Transthoracic echocardiography with harmonic… vs Transesophageal echocardiography and…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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HFI-TTE may aid noninvasive LAA assessment; leaves open replacement of TEE pending prospective validation.
Does transthoracic echocardiography with harmonic frequency imaging provide comparable left atrial appendage assessment to transesophageal echocardiography?
Transthoracic echocardiography with harmonic frequency imaging provides adequate visualization of the left atrial appendage in most patients, with measurements comparable to the gold standard transesophageal echocardiography.
Carerj et al. (2002) studied this question.
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