Insights into left ventricular function from the time course of regional and global rotation by speckle tracking echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 371-377

  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

Left ventricular rotation and twist; Regional left ventricular function; Speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; ROTATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 63849189683     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00834.x     Document Type: Article

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