Echocardiographic Doppler assessments of left ventricular filling and ejection during upright exercise in endurance athletes

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-41

  Sundstedt, Milena ^a   Hedberg, Pär ^a   Jonason, Tommy ^a   Ringqvist, Ivar ^a   Henriksen, Egil ^a  

^a CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Athletes; Doppler echocardiography; Exercise; Left ventricular dynamics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA FLOW; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BICYCLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION TIME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EXERCISE TEST; EXERTION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; POSTURE; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 33845519505     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2007.00715.x     Document Type: Article

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