Relative Duration of Transmitted Mitral a Wave as a Measure of Left Ventricular End-Diastolic Pressure and Stiffness

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-31

  Pai, Ramdas G ^a,b   Varadarajan, Padmini ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

A minus Ar wave duration; Ar wave; Diastolic function; Doppler echocardiography; Flow propagation; Left ventricular function

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLOW RATE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0842313166     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03017.x     Document Type: Article

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