Determinants of enhanced left atrial active emptying with aging: Left atrial preload, contractility or both?

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 987-992

  Yoshida, Naoyasu ^a   Okamoto, Mitsunori ^a   Makita, Yuko ^a   Nanba, Kiyomi ^a   Yoshizumi, Masao ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA PREFECTURAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Left atrial contractility; Left atrial function; Left atrial volume; Tissue Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTILITY; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART PRELOAD; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 67650082376     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.2066     Document Type: Article

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