Left atrial function in diastolic heart failure

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-15

  Kurt, Mustafa ^a,b   Wang, Jianwen ^a   Torre Amione, Guillermo ^a   Nagueh, Sherif F ^a  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diastole; Echocardiography; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; SYSTOLE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, DIASTOLIC; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 64549133245     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.108.813071     Document Type: Article

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