Peak negative myocardial velocity gradient in early diastole as a noninvasive indicator of left ventricular diastolic function: Comparison with transmitral flow velocity indices

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1418-1425

  Shimizu, Yoshito ^a   Uematsu, Masaaki ^a,b   Shimizu, Hiromi ^a   Nakamura, Ko ^a   Yamagishi, Masakazu ^a   Miyatake, Kunio ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0032211084     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00394-5     Document Type: Article

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