Ratio of left atrial to left ventricular size: An anatomical marker of the diastolic left ventricular pressure-volume relationship

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 366-373

  Spevack, Daniel M ^a,b   Blum, Liran ^a   Malhotra, Divya ^a   Nazari, Reza ^a   Ostfeld, Robert J ^a   Doddamani, Sanjay ^a   Bello, Ricardo ^a   Cohen, Hillel W ^a   Sonnenblick, Edmund H ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrium; Diastole; Exercise; Hypertrophy; Ventricle

Indexed keywords

LOOP DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 41149105939     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00619.x     Document Type: Article

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