Left ventricular untwisting in restrictive and pseudorestrictive left ventricular filling: Novel insights into diastology

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 269-274

  Van Dalen, Bas M ^a   Soliman, Osama I I ^a   Vletter, Wim B ^a   Ten Cate, Folkert J ^a   Geleijnse, Marcel L ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diastolic dysfunction; Diastolic function; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICUALR UNTWISTING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORESTRICTIVE LEFT VENTRICULAR FILLING; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; MITRAL VALVE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77949667763     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.00996.x     Document Type: Article

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