Is left ventricular postsystolic long-axis shortening a marker for severity of hypertensive heart disease?

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1490-1493

  Carlhäll, Carljohan ^b   Wranne, Bengt ^a   Jurkevicius, Renaldas ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANAMNESIS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIASTOLE; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINUS RHYTHM; SYSTOLE; THORAX PAIN; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0037526424     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(03)00407-7     Document Type: Article

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