Assessment of myocardial velocities and global function of the left ventricle in asymptomatic patients with moderate-to-severe chronic aortic regurgitation: A tissue Doppler echocardiographic study

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 609-614

  Sokmen, Gulizar ^a   Sokmen, Abdullah ^a   Duzenli, Akif ^b   Soylu, Ahmet ^b   Ozdemir, Kurtulus ^b  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aortic regurgitation; Myocardial performance index; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILE FORCE; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION TIME; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34250748423     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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