Interference of breast implants with echocardiographic image acquisition and interpretation

Echocardiography is one of the most important diagnostic testing in cardiology. The presence of a breast implant overlying heart can cause significant impairment of the echocardiographic acoustic window. Breast implants are increasing in popularity in the USA and the Federal Drug and Food Administra...

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Autor principal: Movahed, Mohammad-Reza
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1820591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17319960
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-5-9
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description Echocardiography is one of the most important diagnostic testing in cardiology. The presence of a breast implant overlying heart can cause significant impairment of the echocardiographic acoustic window. Breast implants are increasing in popularity in the USA and the Federal Drug and Food Administration (FDA) just approved silicone implants again. In this review, the impact of silicone breast implant on the echocardiographic image acquisition and interpretation is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-18205912007-03-10 Interference of breast implants with echocardiographic image acquisition and interpretation Movahed, Mohammad-Reza Cardiovasc Ultrasound Review Echocardiography is one of the most important diagnostic testing in cardiology. The presence of a breast implant overlying heart can cause significant impairment of the echocardiographic acoustic window. Breast implants are increasing in popularity in the USA and the Federal Drug and Food Administration (FDA) just approved silicone implants again. In this review, the impact of silicone breast implant on the echocardiographic image acquisition and interpretation is discussed. BioMed Central 2007-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC1820591/ /pubmed/17319960 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-5-9 Text en Copyright © 2007 Movahed; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Interference of breast implants with echocardiographic image acquisition and interpretation
title Interference of breast implants with echocardiographic image acquisition and interpretation
title_full Interference of breast implants with echocardiographic image acquisition and interpretation
title_fullStr Interference of breast implants with echocardiographic image acquisition and interpretation
title_full_unstemmed Interference of breast implants with echocardiographic image acquisition and interpretation
title_short Interference of breast implants with echocardiographic image acquisition and interpretation
title_sort interference of breast implants with echocardiographic image acquisition and interpretation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1820591/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-5-9
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