Ventricular Long-Axis Contraction as an Earlier Predictor of Outcome in Asymptomatic Aortic Regurgitation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1677-1682

  Paraskevaidis, Ioannis A ^a   Kyrzopoulos, Stamatis ^b   Farmakis, Dimitrios ^a   Parissis, John ^a   Tsiapras, Dimitrios ^b   Iliodromitis, Efstathios K ^a   Kremastinos, Dimitrios Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 36249019766     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.06.074     Document Type: Article

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