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European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access originally published online on July 29, 2008
European Journal of Echocardiography 2008 9(6):713-714; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen208
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Novel ultrasonic insight into coronary arteries

Clemens von Birgelen1,2,* and Patrick M.J. Verhorst1

1 Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcentrum Twente, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Haaksbergerstraat 55, 7513ER Enschede, The Netherlands
2 Institute of Biomedical Technology (BMTI), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

* Corresponding author. Tel: +31 53 487 2151; fax: +31 53 487 2152. E-mail address: c.vonbirgelen@ziekenhuis-mst.nl

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Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has gained general acceptance as it provides valuable insights into various clinical situations, can be applied at bedside and in operating rooms, and is relatively inexpensive.1–4 Besides for the standard cardiovascular examination, TEE has been used to investigate major epicardial coronary arteries in different clinical settings, both with and without the application of Doppler techniques.4–11

Most previous TEE studies in coronary arteries concentrated on the assessment of the left main stem—the very proximal left coronary segment—as this is, with TEE, the best . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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