Interference of breast implants with echocardiographic image acquisition and interpretation
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University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Tucson, Arizona, USAIssue Date
2007Metadata
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BioMed CentralCitation
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2007, 5:9 doi:10.1186/1476-7120-5-9Journal
Cardiovascular UltrasoundRights
© 2007 Movahed; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).Collection Information
This item is part of the UA Faculty Publications collection. For more information this item or other items in the UA Campus Repository, contact the University of Arizona Libraries at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
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.EISSN
1476-7120Version
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