Left atrial compensatory function in subjects with early stage primary hypertension assessed by using left atrial volumetric emptying fraction acquired by transthoracic echocardiography

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 363-367

  Wakatsuki, Yu ^a   Funabashi, Nobusada ^a   Mikami, Yoko ^a   Shiina, Yumi ^a   Kawakubo, Miyuki ^a   Takahashi, Maiko ^a   Yajima, Rei ^a   Uehara, Masae ^a   Takaoka, Hiroyuki ^a   Komuro, Issei ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART VOLUME; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SINUS RHYTHM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 68049088681     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.04.098     Document Type: Article

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