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Superior Vena Cava, Right Pulmonary Artery or Both: Real Time Two‐ and Three‐Dimensional Transthoracic Contrast Echocardiographic Identification of the Echo‐Free Space Posterior to the Ascending Aorta
Author(s) -
Burri Manjula V.,
Mahan Edward F.,
Nanda Navin C.,
Singh Anurag,
Pothineni Koteswara R.,
Yelamanchili Pridhvi,
Panwar Sadik R.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00512.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ascending aorta , aorta , pulmonary artery , superior vena cava , contrast (vision) , cardiology , radiology , inferior vena cava , right pulmonary artery , computer science , artificial intelligence
We describe the usefulness of contrast echocardiography and live/real time three‐dimensional transthoracic echocardiography in characterizing the normal structures imaged posterior to the proximal ascending aorta as superior vena cava, right pulmonary artery, or both.