Extracardiac findings on echocardiography: blissful ignorance or a call to improve our training?

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2014 May;27(5):547-8. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2014.03.006.

Authors

Lisa M Fleming¹, Warren J Manning²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: wmanning@bidmc.harvard.edu.

PMID: 24767434
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2014.03.006

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Aortic Valve Stenosis / diagnostic imaging*
Aortic Valve Stenosis / epidemiology
Cardiology / education*
Comorbidity
Echocardiography / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Incidence
Incidental Findings
Liver Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
Liver Diseases / epidemiology
Pleural Effusion / diagnostic imaging*
Pleural Effusion / epidemiology
Radiology / education*
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity