Association of left atrial strain and strain rate assessed by speckle tracking echocardiography with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1188-1194

  Tsai, Wei Chuan ^a,b   Lee, Cheng Han ^a   Lin, Chih Chan ^a,b   Liu, Yen Wen ^a,b   Huang, Yao Yi ^b   Li, Wei Ting ^a   Chen, Ju Yi ^a   Lin, Li Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Left atrium; Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation; Speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; P WAVE; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; STANDARD;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 72849126644     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.00954.x     Document Type: Article

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