Ventricular Rotation Is Independent of Cardiac Looping: A Study in Mice With Situs Inversus Totalis Using Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-323

  Frank, Lowell H ^a,b   Yu, Qing ^a   Francis, Richard ^a   Tian, Xin ^a   Samtani, Rajeev ^a   Sahn, David J ^c   Leatherbury, Linda ^a,b   Lo, Cecilia W ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

High frequency ultrasound; Rotation; Situs inversus; Speckle tracking; Ventricular twist

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CARDIAC LOOPING; CILIARY DYSKINESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; EPISCOPIC FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEART; HEART DISEASE; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE; MICROSCOPE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; ROTATION; SITUS INVERSUS; SITUS INVERSUS TOTALIS; SITUS SOLITUS; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SITUS INVERSUS; TORSION ABNORMALITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77549087501     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.11.024     Document Type: Article

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