The wake of a large vortex is associated with intraventricular filling delay in impaired left ventricles with a pseudonormalized transmitral flow pattern

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 369-375

  Ishizu, Tomoko ^a   Seo, Yoshihiro ^a   Ishimitsu, Toshiyuki ^a   Obara, Kenichi ^a   Moriyama, Naoko ^a   Kawano, Satoru ^a   Watanabe, Shigeyuki ^a   Yamaguchi, Iwao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Diastolic function; Intraventricular fluid dynamics; Vortex formation

Indexed keywords

SHU 508;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VORTEX MOTION;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33745414016     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00220.x     Document Type: Article

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