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Elena Batlle
Researcher at Hospital Clínico San Carlos
Publications - 18
Citations - 604
Elena Batlle is an academic researcher from Hospital Clínico San Carlos. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aortic dissection & Endocarditis. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 18 publications receiving 586 citations.
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Natural history and serial morphology of aortic intramural hematoma: A novel variant of aortic dissection
Isidre Vilacosta,José Alberto San Román,Joaquín Ferreirós,Paloma Aragoncillo,Ramiro Méndez,Juan Antonio Castillo,María Jesús Rollán,Elena Batlle,Vicente Peral,Luis Sánchez-Harguindey +9 more
TL;DR: Aortic intramural hematoma can be detected and monitored by transesophageal echocardiography but not by aortography, and two types of aortic Intramural Hematoma are distinguished: traumatic of good prognosis and nontraumatic.
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Penetrating atherosclerotic aortic ulcer: documentation by transesophageal echocardiography
Isidre Vilacosta,José Alberto San Román,Paloma Aragoncillo,Joaquín Ferreirós,Ramiro Méndez,Catherine Graupner,Elena Batlle,Javier Serrano,Ángel González Pinto,Jose M. Oyonarte +9 more
TL;DR: Aortic ulcers should be included in the differential diagnosis of chest or back pain, especially in elderly hypertensive patients, and may be recognized by TEE.
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Clinical, anatomic, and echocardiographic characteristics of aneurysms of the mitral valve.
Isidre Vilacosta,José Alberto San Román,Cristina Sarriá,Elena Iturralde,Catherine Graupner,Elena Batlle,Vicente Peral,Paloma Aragoncillo,Walter Stoermann +8 more
TL;DR: This study describes the clinical, anatomic, echocardiographic, and Doppler features of 13 patients with mitral valve aneurysms who had definitive criteria for infective endocarditis and found Transesophageal e chocardiography was superior to conventional echOCardiography in detecting and assessing aneurYSms.
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Clinical course, microbiologic profile, and diagnosis of periannular complications in prosthetic valve endocarditis.
José Alberto San Román,Isidre Vilacosta,Cristina Sarriá,Luis de la Fuente,Olga Sanz,José Luis Vega,Ricardo Ronderos,Ángel González Pinto,María Jesús Rollán,Catherine Graupner,Elena Batlle,Félix Lahulla,Walter Stoermann,Marcelo Portis,Francisco Fernández-Avilés +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, transesophageal echocardiography was used to identify 27 abscesses and all pseudoaneurysms and fistulas in prosthetic valve endocarditis patients.