Assessment of left ventricular end-diastolic pressure by Doppler echocardiography: Contribution of duration of pulmonary venous versus mitral flow velocity curves at atrial contraction

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 52-59

  Yamamoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Nishimura, Rick A ^a   Burnett Jr , John C ^a   Redfield, Margaret M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY VEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PULMONARY VEINS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 0030641657     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(97)80032-6     Document Type: Article

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