TY - JOUR
T1 - Echocardiography in the evaluation of thoracic trauma
AU - Johnson, S. B.
AU - Kearney, P. A.
AU - Smith, M. D.
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - Echocardiography has become a useful diagnostic modality in the evaluation of cardiovascular injury after thoracic trauma. Valuable information about cardiac wall motion, valvular function, pericardial effusions, and ventricular volume status can be obtained without significant risk. More recent application for the diagnosis of traumatic aortic disruption provides a safer, easier, less expensive, and more accurate method for detecting these injuries. Cardiac evaluation with TTE is unsuccessful in approximately 20% of examinations and is unable to provide the image resolution of the more invasive transesophageal approach.
AB - Echocardiography has become a useful diagnostic modality in the evaluation of cardiovascular injury after thoracic trauma. Valuable information about cardiac wall motion, valvular function, pericardial effusions, and ventricular volume status can be obtained without significant risk. More recent application for the diagnosis of traumatic aortic disruption provides a safer, easier, less expensive, and more accurate method for detecting these injuries. Cardiac evaluation with TTE is unsuccessful in approximately 20% of examinations and is unable to provide the image resolution of the more invasive transesophageal approach.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0039-6109(16)46583-7
DO - 10.1016/S0039-6109(16)46583-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 7899993
AN - SCOPUS:0028917721
SN - 0039-6109
VL - 75
SP - 193
EP - 205
JO - Surgical Clinics of North America
JF - Surgical Clinics of North America
IS - 2
ER -