Usefulness of left atrial diametres and volumes for the evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function;Utilità della misurazione dei diametri e del volume atriale sinistro nella valutazione della funzione diastolica del ventricolo sinistro

Recenti Progressi in Medicina

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 294-298

  Vizzardi, Enrico ^a,b   Bonadei, Ivano ^a   Teli, Melissa ^a   Caretta, Giorgio ^a   Maiandi, Cristian ^a   Madureri, Alberto ^a   Bordonali, Tania ^a   Chiari, Ermanna ^a   Raddino, Riccardo ^a   Cas, Livio Dei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Cardiologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diastolic function; Left atrium; Left ventricle

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULMONARY VEIN; RELAXATION TIME; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; VEIN DIAMETER;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 68349114789     PISSN: 00341193     EISSN: 00341193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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