Assessment of Left Ventricular Relaxation by Untwisting Rate Based on Different Algorithms

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1040-1046

  Wang, Jianwen ^a   Khoury, Dirar S ^a   Kurrelmeyer, Karla ^a   Torre Amione, Guillermo ^a   Nagueh, Sherif F ^a  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Two dimensional speckle tracking; Untwisting rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOG; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE RELAXATION; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNTWISTING RATE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DOGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 69449095829     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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