The shape of the aortic outflow velocity profile revisited: Is there a relation between its asymmetry and ventricular function in coronary artery disease?

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 847-857

  Cikes, Maja ^a   Kalinic, Hrvoje ^b   Baltabaeva, Aigul ^c   Loncaric, Sven ^b   Parsai, Chirine ^c   Milicic, Davor ^a   Cikes, Ivo ^a   Sutherland, George ^c   Bijnens, Bart ^a,b,d,e  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Doppler echocardiography; Haemodynamics; Left ventricular function; Left ventricular outflow trace

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA FLOW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION TIME; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AGED; AORTA VALVE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 73449101903     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jep088     Document Type: Article

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