Diagnosing Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction by Echocardiography: Reverend Bayes Lends a Hand

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 162-163

  Rost, Christian ^a   Flachskampf, Frank A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 75749144275     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.12.013     Document Type: Editorial

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