A new approach to assessing regional and global myocardial contractility

Echocardiography

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-7

  Domanski, Michael J ^a   Follmann, Dean ^a   Mirsky, Israel ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

2 D echocardiography; carotid pulse tracing; myocardial contractility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE TENSION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0030942275     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1997.tb00683.x     Document Type: Article

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