Assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction using long-axis systolic function is independent of image quality: A study of tissue Doppler imaging and M-mode echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 846-852

  Yuda, Satoshi ^a   Inaba, Yoshie ^a   Fujii, Sakiko ^a   Kokubu, Nobuaki ^a   Yoshioka, Takuji ^a   Sakurai, Seiichiro ^a   Nishizato, Kimio ^a   Fujii, Noriyuki ^a   Hashimoto, Akiyoshi ^a   Uno, Kikuya ^a   Nakata, Tomoaki ^a   Tsuchihashi, Kazufumi ^a   Miura, Tetsuji ^a   Ura, Nobuyuki ^a   Natori, Hiroshi ^a   Shimamoto, Kazuaki ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Ejection fraction; Image quality; Long axis function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLE;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33750295565     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00331.x     Document Type: Article

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