A new ultrasound technique to measure the isovolumetric contraction time as an index of cardiac contractility: Fetal lamb validation

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 194-199

  Koga, Tsuyoshi ^a,b   Athayde, Neil ^a   Trudinger, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Yoshimura Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac contractility; Doppler ultrasound; Fetal cardiac isovolumetric contraction time

Indexed keywords

INOTROPIC AGENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART PERFORMANCE; INOTROPISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOVOLUMETRY; LAMB; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; AORTA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; DOPAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE, FETAL; HEART VENTRICLES; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PREGNANCY; PROPANOLAMINES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEEP; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 0038578845     PISSN: 10715576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-5576(03)00043-1     Document Type: Article

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