Assessment of abnormal left atrial relaxation by transesophageal pulsed Doppler echocardiography of pulmonary venous flow velocity

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 753-758

  Oki, Takashi ^a   Tabata, Tomotsugu ^a   Yamada, Hirotsugu ^a   Fukuda, Kazuyo ^a   Abe, Miho ^a   Onose, Yukiko ^a   Wakatsuki, Tetsuzo ^a   Iuchi, Arata ^a   Ito, Susumu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b Tokushima Prefectural Miyoshi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interatrial septal motion; Left atrial relaxation; Pulmonary venous flow velocity; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART DILATATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LUNG VEIN; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031667239     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960211011     Document Type: Article

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