Echocardiographic determination of left atrial function and its application for assessment of mitral flow velocity pattern

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-25

  Zhang, Guican ^a   Yasumura, Yoshio ^a   Uematsu, Masaaki ^a   Nakatani, Satoshi ^a   Nagaya, Noritoshi ^a   Miyatake, Kunio ^a   Yamagishi, Masakazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Left atrial volume; Transmitral flow velocity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FLOW RATE; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE;

EID: 0033573252     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5273(99)00137-0     Document Type: Article

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