Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular relaxation and cardiac filling pressures

Current Heart Failure Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 154-159

  Nagueh, Sherif F ^a  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIASTOLE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE RELAXATION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; REVIEW; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

ALGORITHMS; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 69549097706     PISSN: 15469530     EISSN: 15469549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11897-009-0022-8     Document Type: Review

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