Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular structure and function in elderly women with congestive heart failure

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 42-47

  Potocka Plazak, K ^a,c   Kmita, A ^b   Plazak, W ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^c Provincial Hospital   (Poland)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Elderly; Heart failure; Heart valve diseases; Left ventricular function

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034008533     PISSN: 03949532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03339827     Document Type: Article

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