Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular untwist rate: Comparison of tissue Doppler and speckle tracking methodologies

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 683-690

  Ferferieva, V ^a,b   Claus, P ^a   Vermeulen, K ^a   Missant, C ^a   Szulik, M ^a   Rademakers, F ^a   D'Hooge, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diastole; Echocardiography; Haemodynamics; Torsion; Untwist

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE UNTWIST RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SWINE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TORSION;

ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, ANIMAL; SWINE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 67650904458     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jep038     Document Type: Article

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