Left Atrial Ejection Force in Healthy Newborn Infants

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 725-728

  Kiani, Abdolrazagh ^a   Kocharian, Armen ^a   Shabanian, Reza ^a   Rahimzadeh, Mitra ^b   Shakibi, Jami G ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c Day General Hospital   (Iran)

Author keywords

Atrial ejection force; Diastolic function; Newborn infant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORCE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN;

ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEART ATRIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SYSTOLE;

EID: 44149125793     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2007.10.032     Document Type: Article

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