Role of echocardiography in diagnosis and risk stratification in heart failure with left ventricular systolic dysfunction

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ciampi, Quirino ^a   Villari, Bruno ^a  

^a FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; LUNG EXTRAVASCULAR FLUID; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; ALGORITHM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLE;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 36048931450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-5-34     Document Type: Review

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