New echocardiographic technologies in the clinical management of hypertensive heart disease

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 997-1006

  Di Bello, Vitantonio ^a   Galderisi, Maurizio ^a   De Gregorio, Cesare ^a   Ansalone, Gerardo ^a   Dini, Frank Lloyd ^a   Di Salvo, Giovanni ^a   Gallina, Sabina ^a   Mele, Donato ^a   Sciomer, Susanna ^a   Montisci, Roberta ^a   Mondillo, Sergio ^a   Marino, Paolo Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arterial hypertension; Coronary flow reserve; Integrated backscatter; Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Threedimensional echocardiography; Tissue Doppler

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; COLLAGEN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENALAPRIL; LOSARTAN; NEBIVOLOL; PERINDOPRIL;

CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART INJURY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; HYPERTENSION; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; MICROCIRCULATION; MORPHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VIDEODENSITOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 38449089448     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e3281053ad2     Document Type: Review

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