Assessment of left ventricular function by meridional and circumferential end-systolic stress/minor-axis shortening relations in dilated cardiomyopathy

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 544-549

  Municino, Annamaria ^b   De Simone, Giovanni ^b   Roman, Mary J ^b   Cody, Robert J ^b   Ganau, Antonello ^b   Hahn, Rebecca T ^b   Devereux, Richard B ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030238418     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00362-1     Document Type: Article

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