Tissue Doppler Imaging can be useful to distinguish pathological from physiological left ventricular hypertrophy: A study in master athletes and mild hypertensive subjects

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Galanti, Giorgio ^a   Toncelli, Loira ^a   Del Furia, Francesca ^a   Stefani, Laura ^a   Cappelli, Brunello ^a   De Luca, Alessio ^a   Vono, Maria Concetta Roberta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; VALIDITY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIASTOLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ATHLETES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 72849145887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-7-48     Document Type: Article

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