Optimal Noninvasive Assessment of Diastolic Heart Failure in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: Comparison of Tissue Doppler Echocardiography, Left Atrium Size, and Brain Natriuretic Peptide

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 689-696

  Watanabe, Tomoyuki ^a   Iwai Takano, Masumi ^b   Oikawa, Masayoshi ^b   Yamaki, Takayoshi ^b   Yaoita, Hiroyuki ^b   Maruyama, Yukio ^b  

^a Watari Hospital   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 44149084960     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2007.08.014     Document Type: Article

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