Echocardiography and the clinical diagnosis of left ventricular dysfunction

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 507-513

  Rovai, Daniele ^a   Morales, Maria Aurora ^a   Di Bella, Gianluca ^b   Prediletto, Renato ^a   De Nes, Michele ^a   Pingitore, Alessandro ^a   Rossi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical diagnosis; Echocardiography; Left ventricular ejection fraction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Ventricular volumes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AREA UNDER CURVE; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 52249110184     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.63.4.2033051     Document Type: Article

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