An echocardiographic index for decompensation of the chronically volume-overloaded left ventricle in children

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 589-596

  Aziz, Kalimuddin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Echocardiographic index; Left ventricular decompensation; Mitral regurgitation; Volume overload

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PREDICTION; R WAVE; STANDARDIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC VOLUME; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 28644443550     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951105001757     Document Type: Article

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