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Transoesophageal Echocardiography

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The multimodality imaging has improved considerable our understanding and possibility to evaluate the right heart cavities and became mandatory for right ventricle evaluation nowadays. However, echocardiography remains the most accessible, fast and cheap modality in every day clinical practice and transesophageal echocardiography became a very useful tool in some clinical scenarios for diagnosis and monitoring purposes as well (peri-operative or peri-intervention, suboptimal transthoracic echocardiography quality).

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  1. Emergency Central Military Hospital, Bucharest, Romania

    Magdalena Gurzun & Silviu I. Dumitrescu

  2. Euroecolab, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

    Magdalena Gurzun

  3. Department of Medicine, Titu Maiorescu University, Bucharest, Romania

    Silviu I. Dumitrescu

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  1. Department of Medicine, Titu Maiorescu University, Bucharest, Romania

    Silviu Ionel Dumitrescu

  2. Department of Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

    Ion C. Ţintoiu

  3. Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong

    Malcolm John Underwood

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Gurzun, M., Dumitrescu, S.I. (2018). Transoesophageal Echocardiography. In: Dumitrescu, S., Ţintoiu, I., Underwood, M. (eds) Right Heart Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73764-5_34

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