Evaluation of the left atrial performance using acoustic quantification

Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 117-125

  Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a,b   Dernellis, John ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Left atrial pump function; Left atrial stiffness; Pressure volume relation; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ACOUSTICS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CINEANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONLINE SYSTEM; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033011277     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00792.x     Document Type: Review

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