Regional and temporal heterogeneity of postsystolic wall thickening is associated with left ventricular asynchrony in normal and experimental stunned myocardium

Basic Research in Cardiology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 385-396

  Lucats, Laurence ^a,b   Monnet, Xavier ^a,b   Bizé, Alain ^a,b   Chetboul, Valérie ^b   Pouchelon, Jean Louis ^b   Hittinger, Luc ^b,c   Berdeaux, Alain ^a,c   Ghaleh, Bijan ^a,c  

^a FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE   (France)

^b ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

^c HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Myocardial stunning; Postsystolic wall thickening; Regional function; Systole

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA PRESSURE; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DOG; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE DP-DT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTSYSTOLIC WALL THICKENING; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; SYSTOLE;

ANIMALS; DOGS; HEART; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 46149107278     PISSN: 03008428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00395-008-0716-1     Document Type: Article

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