Abnormalities of Doppler measures of diastolic function in the healthy elderly are not related to alterations of left atrial pressure

Circulation

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1499-1503

  Prasad, Anand ^a   Okazaki, Kazunobu ^a   Zadeh, Armin A ^a   Dijk, Erika ^b   Fu, Qi ^a   Thomas, James D ^c   Levine, Benjamin D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Diastole; Heart diseases; Heart failure; Pulmonary wedge pressure

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE;

EID: 16344393748     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000159353.31271.F2     Document Type: Article

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