Impact of left ventricular function on the pulmonary vein Doppler spectrum: Nonsimultaneous assessment with load-insensitive indices

Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-18

  Wu, Chih Cheng ^a   Lee, Wen Shin ^a   Yu, Wen Chung ^a   Huang, Wen Pin ^b   Lin, Yao Ping ^a   Hsu, Tsei Lieh ^a   Yu An Ding, Philip ^a   Chen, Chen Huan ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHENG HSIN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Hemodynamics; Pulmonary vein

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY VEINS; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037229141     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.00002.x     Document Type: Article

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