The echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle: What to do in 2010?

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 81-96

  Jurcut, Ruxandra ^a   Giusca, Sorin ^a,b   La Gerche, André ^b   Vasile, Simona ^a   Ginghina, Carmen ^a   Voigt, Jens Uwe ^b  

^a CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

3D echocardiography; Echocardiography; Right ventricle; Strain rate imaging; Tissue Doppler

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY; VELOCITY;

DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 77949372022     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jep234     Document Type: Review

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