Left atrial function assessed by real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography is related to right ventricular systolic pressure in chronic mitral regurgitation

American Heart Journal

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 309-316

  Saraiva, Roberto M ^a   Yamano, Tetsuhiro ^a   Matsumura, Yoshiki ^a   Takasaki, Kunitsugu ^a   Toyono, Manatomo ^a   Agler, Deborah A ^a   Greenberg, Neil ^a   Thomas, James D ^a   Shiota, Takahiro ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION, RIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 67650572119     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.05.030     Document Type: Article

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