Correlation of end-diastolic pressure and myocardial elasticity with the transit time of the left atrial pressure wave (A-Ar interval)

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 293-299

  Brennan, Edmund G ^a,b   O'Hare, Neil J ^a   Walsh, Michael J ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PRESSURE; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0031137545     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(97)70065-8     Document Type: Article

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