New echocardiographic techniques for evaluating left ventricular myocardial function

Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 228-247

  Marcucci, Carlo ^a   Lauer, Ryan ^a   Mahajan, Aman ^b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3 dimensional echocardiography; Contrast; Echocardiography; Speckle tracking; Tissue Doppler imaging; Transesophageal; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PURKINJE FIBER; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING;

CARDIAC VOLUME; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 58149168866     PISSN: 10892532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1089253208328581     Document Type: Review

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