Left Ventricular Untwisting Is an Important Determinant of Early Diastolic Function

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 709-716

  Burns, Andrew T ^a   La Gerche, Andre ^a   Prior, David L ^a,b   MacIsaac, Andrew I ^a,b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

diastole; echocardiography; speckle tracking imaging; torsion; untwisting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE DP-DT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE RELAXATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE TORSION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TORSION;

AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 66449110549     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.01.015     Document Type: Article

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