Age-related changes in the biomechanics of left ventricular twist measured by speckle tracking echocardiography

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Van Dalen, Bas M ^a   Soliman, Osama I I ^a   Vletter, Wim B ^a   Ten Cate, Folkert J ^a   Geleijnse, Marcel L ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Left ventricular function

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANOCARDIOGRAPHY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SPECTRUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; ROTATION; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; TORSION, MECHANICAL; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 57049158257     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00513.2008     Document Type: Article

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