Insights into myocardial mechanics in normal and pathologic states using newer echocardiographic techniques

Current Heart Failure Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 143-150

  Kirkpatrick, James N ^a   Lang, Roberto M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

B SCAN; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EARLY INTERVENTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PATIENT SELECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 55249109974     PISSN: 15469530     EISSN: 15469549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11897-008-0023-z     Document Type: Review

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