Left ventricular diastolic function in infants, children, and adolescents. Reference values and analysis of morphologic and physiologic determinants of echocardiographic Doppler flow signals during growth and maturation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1441-1448

  Schmitz, Lothar ^a   Koch, Heike ^a   Bein, Georg ^a   Brockmeier, Konrad ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0032211107     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00379-9     Document Type: Article

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