Usefulness of pulsed-wave tissue Doppler echocardiography for the assessment of the left and right ventricular function in patients with clinical hypothyroidism

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 471-477

  Kosar, Feridun ^a,b   Sahin, Ibrahim ^a   Aksoy, Yüksel ^a   Uzer, Elmas ^a   Turan, Nedim ^c  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Hypothyroidism; Left and right ventricular function; Pulsed wave tissue Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION TIME; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; THYROID HORMONES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 33748548402     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00243.x     Document Type: Article

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