A reduction in the magnitude and velocity of left ventricular torsion may be associated with increased left ventricular efficiency: Evaluation by speckle-tracking echocardiography;La reducción en el nivel y la velocidad de la torsión ventricular puede asociarse a incremento en la eficiencia ventricular izquierda: Evaluación mediante ecografía speckle-tracking

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 705-713

  Zócalo, Yanina ^a   Guevara, Eduardo ^b   Bia, Daniel ^a   Giacche, Eduardo ^c   Pessana, Franco ^c   Peidro, Roberto ^b   Armentano, Ricardo L ^a,c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN FAVALORO   (Argentina)

^c FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Basic research; Echocardiography; Exercise; Left ventricle; Physiology; Soccer players; Ventricular torsion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; B SCAN; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 47749138909     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: 15792242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13123991     Document Type: Article

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