Quantitative Echocardiographic Analysis of the Right Ventricle in Healthy Individuals

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1365-1372

  Kjaergaard, Jesper ^a   Sogaard, Peter ^b   Hassager, Christian ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 33846025104     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.05.012     Document Type: Article

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