Age-Specific Reference Intervals for Indexed Left Ventricular Mass in Children

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 709-714

  Khoury, Philip R ^a   Mitsnefes, Mark ^a   Daniels, Stephen R ^a   Kimball, Thomas R ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Left ventricular mass; Normative values

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; OHIO; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 67349266191     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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