Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-133

  Nagueh, Sherif F ^a   Appleton, Christopher P ^b   Gillebert, Thierry C ^c   Marino, Paolo N ^d   Oh, Jae K ^e   Smiseth, Otto A ^f   Waggoner, Alan D ^g   Flachskampf, Frank A ^h   Pellikka, Patricia A ^e   Evangelista, Arturo ⁱ  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^g WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

ⁱ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diastole; Doppler; Echocardiography; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VEIN; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; STROKE VOLUME; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 58849121949     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2008.11.023     Document Type: Article

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