The correlation of left atrial volume index to the level of N-terminal pro-BNP in heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 961-967

  Kim, Hyungseop ^a   Jun, Dong Whan ^a   Cho, Yun Kyeong ^a   Nam, Chang Wook ^a   Han, Seong Wook ^a   Hur, Seung Ho ^a   Kim, Yoon Nyun ^a   Kim, Kwon Bae ^a  

^a Dongsan Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Diastolic heart failure; Left atrial volume index; N terminal pro B type natriuretic peptide

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY SURFACE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; ORGAN SIZE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 53349110132     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00717.x     Document Type: Article

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