Myocardial performance index correlates with right ventricular ejection fraction measured by nuclear ventriculography

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 381-385

  Karnati, Pavan K ^a   El Hajjar, Mohammad ^a   Torosoff, Mikhail ^b   Fein, Steven A ^a,b  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Myocardial performance index; Nuclear ventriculography; Peak tricuspid annular plane systolic velocity; Right ventricular ejection fraction; Visual 2 dimension echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRICUSPID VALVE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; TRICUSPID VALVE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULOGRAPHY, FIRST-PASS;

EID: 41149163271     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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