Scaling of diastolic intraventricular pressure gradients is related to filling time duration

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Popović, Zoran B ^a   Richards, Kathryn E ^a   Greenberg, Neil L ^a   Rovner, Aleksandr ^a   Drinko, Jeannie ^a   Cheng, Yuanna ^a   Penn, Marc S ^a   Fukamachi, Kiyotaka ^a   Mal, Niladri ^a   Levine, Benjamin D ^b   Garcia, Mario J ^a   Thomas, James D ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Comparative physiology; Diastolic function; Hemodynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOG; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RABBITS; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 33746827265     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00081.2006     Document Type: Article

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