Usefulness of tissue Doppler echocardiography for evaluating ventricular function in children without heart disease

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 570-574

  Swaminathan, Sethuraman ^a   Ferrer, Peter L ^a   Wolff, Grace S ^a   Gómez Marín, Orlando ^a,b   Rusconi, Paolo G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 0037374530     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(02)03308-8     Document Type: Article

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