Left ventricular myocardial velocities in healthy children: Quantitative assessment by tissue Doppler echocardiography and relation to the characteristics of filling of the left ventricle

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 156-163

  Ayabakan, Canan ^a,b   Özkutlu, Süheyla ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Healthy children; Myocardial velocity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LUNG VEIN; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; AGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; HEMODYNAMICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 20544444051     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951104002070     Document Type: Article

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