Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular mass in neonatal and adult mice: Accuracy of different echocardiographic methods

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 900-907

  Ghanem, Alexander ^a   Röll, Willi ^a   Hashemi, Toktam ^a   Dewald, Oliver ^a   Djoufack, P Chryso ^a   Fink, Klaus B ^a   Schrickel, Jan ^a   Lewalter, Thorsten ^a   Lüderitz, Berndt ^a   Tiemann, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Hypertrophy; Left ventricular mass; Mice; Neonatal physiology

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART RATE; HEART SIZE; HYPERTROPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NEWBORN CARE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTOLE; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DIASTOLE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAPILLARY MUSCLES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE;

EID: 33750354043     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00323.x     Document Type: Article

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