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Roles of Transesophageal Echocardiography and Cardiac Computed Tomography for Evaluation of Left Atrial Thrombus and Associated Pathology A Review and Critical Analysis

Overview of attention for article published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, April 2018
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Title
Roles of Transesophageal Echocardiography and Cardiac Computed Tomography for Evaluation of Left Atrial Thrombus and Associated Pathology A Review and Critical Analysis
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JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, April 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.jcmg.2017.12.019
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Faraz Pathan, Harvey Hecht, Jagat Narula, Thomas H. Marwick

Abstract

Evaluation of the left atrium and left atrial appendage for the presence of thrombus prior to cardioversion and pulmonary vein isolation, and of the entire heart for embolic sources in the setting of cryptogenic stroke, has long been standard medical care. Guidelines have uniformly recommended transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to accomplish these goals. In recent years, computed tomographic angiography has demonstrated diagnostic accuracy similar to that of TEE for the detection of thrombus. Analysis of the pertinent data and relative merits of the 2 technologies leads to the conclusions that: 1) both modalities have some unique, nonoverlapping capabilities that may dictate their use in specific situations; 2) computed tomographic angiography is a reasonable alternative to TEE when the primary aim is to exclude left atrial and left atrial appendage thrombus and in patients in whom the risks associated with TEE outweigh the benefits; and 3) both options should be discussed with the patient in the setting of shared decision making.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 86 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 13 15%
Researcher 12 14%
Student > Postgraduate 10 12%
Student > Bachelor 8 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Other 19 22%
Unknown 18 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 46 53%
Engineering 3 3%
Social Sciences 3 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 3%
Design 2 2%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 23 27%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 50. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 January 2022.
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#840,187
of 25,450,869 outputs
Outputs from JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
#235
of 2,705 outputs
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#18,883
of 344,003 outputs
Outputs of similar age from JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
#6
of 61 outputs
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