Validation of echocardiographic methods for assessing left ventricular dysfunction in rats with myocardial infarction

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 287, Issue 5 56-5, 2004, Pages

  Morgan, Eric E ^a   Faulx, Michael D ^b   McElfresh, Tracy A ^a   Kung, Theodore A ^a   Zawaneh, Michael S ^b   Stanley, William C ^a   Chandler, Margaret P ^a   Hoit, Brian D ^b,c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Heart failure; Myocardial performance index; Ventricular function; Wall motion score index

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY LIGATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEART CATHETER; HEART INDEX; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VOLUME; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTOLE; TIME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 7244237837     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00393.2004     Document Type: Article

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