Close physical contact of the heart with diaphragm causes pseudo-asynergy of left ventricular inferior wall in normal subjects

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 573-579

  Sakurai, Susumu ^a,c   Takenaka, Katsu ^a   Shiojima, Ichiro ^b   Sonoda, Makoto ^b   Uno, Kansei ^a   Nakahara, Kazuhiko ^a   Nagai, Ryozo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial gravity; Asynergy; Diaphragm; Echocardiography; Posture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GRAVITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ASYNERGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTOLE;

DIAPHRAGM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POSTURE; REFERENCE VALUES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 7044262165     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03058.x     Document Type: Article

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