Echocardiography in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. The Role of Conventional and Emerging Technologies

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 787-800

  Afonso, Luis C ^a   Bernal, Juan ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^b   Abraham, Theodore P ^c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; strain imaging; tissue Doppler

Indexed keywords

AORTA SUBVALVULAR STENOSIS; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ASYNERGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 56049107035     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.09.002     Document Type: Review

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