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Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography: Bibliography American Society of Anesthesiologists Bibliography 1. Abdel-Massih T, Dulac Y, Taktak A, Aggoun Y, Massabuau P, Elbaz M, Carrie D, Acar P: Assessment of atrial septal defect size with 3D-transesophageal echocardiography: comparison with balloon method. Echocardiography 2005; 22:121-127 2. Abe S, Ono S, Murata K, Tomochika Y, Kimura K, Fujino T, Ueda K, Tone T, Tanaka N, Takenaka H, Zempo N, Esato K, Matsunaga N, Matsuzaki M: Usefulness of transesophageal echocardiographic monitoring in transluminal endovascular stent-graft repair for thoracic aortic aneurysm. Jpn Circ J 2000; 64: 960-964 3. Abraham TP, Kon ND, Nomeir AM, Cordell AR, Kitzman DW: Accuracy of transesophageal echocardiography in preoperative determination of aortic anulus size during valve replacement. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 1997; 10:149-154 4. Abraham TP, Warner JG Jr, Kon ND, Lantz PE, Fowle KM, Brooker RF, Ge S, Nomeir AM, Kitzman DW: Feasibility, accuracy, and incremental value of intraoperative three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in valve surgery. Am J Cardiol 1997; 80:1577-1582 5. Abreo G, Zwischenberger JB, Farrell RW, Ahmad M, Stouffer GA: Aortic root pseudoaneurysm after aortic dissection repair. Am J Med Sci 1997; 314:273-275 6. Adams MS, Alston TA, Walker JD: Detection of an ill-poised thread of lint by transesophageal echocardiography after aortic valve replacement. Anesth Analg 2006; 103:40 7. Agricola E, Oppizzi M, Maisano F, Bove T, De Bonis M, Toracca L, Alfieri O: Detection of mechanisms of immediate failure by transesophageal echocardiography in quadrangular resection mitral valve repair technique for severe mitral regurgitation. Am J Cardiol 2003; 91:175-179 8. Aklog L, Filsoufi F, Flores KQ, Chen RH, Cohn LH, Nathan NS, Byrne JG, Adams DH: Does coronary artery bypass grafting
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