Echocardiographic assessments of left atrial strain and volume in healthy patients and patients with mitral valvular heart disease by tissue Doppler imaging and 3-dimensional echocardiography

Korean Circulation Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 280-287

  Shin, Mi Seung ^a   Kim, Bong Roung ^b   Oh, Kyu Jin ^a   Bong, Jeong Min ^a   Chung, Wook Jin ^a   Kang, Woong Choi ^a   Han, Seung Hwan ^a   Moon, Chan Il ^a   Ahn, Tae Hoon ^a   Choi, In Suck ^a   Shin, Eak Kyun ^a  

^a Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Doppler; Left atrium; Strains

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; SYSTOLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; VELOCITY;

EID: 68849097860     PISSN: 17385520     EISSN: 17385555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4070/kcj.2009.39.7.280     Document Type: Article

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