Subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in asymptomatic severe aortic regurgitation patients with normal ejection fraction: A combined tissue doppler and velocity vector imaging study

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 260-268

  Tayyareci, Yelda ^a   Yildirimturk, Ozlem ^a   Aytekin, Vedat ^b   Demiroglu, I C Cemsid ^a   Aytekin, Saide ^b  

^a FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL BILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aortic regurgitation; Echocardiography; Left ventricular function; Strain strain rate; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE TENSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; VELOCITY VECTOR IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD;

AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77949720251     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.01053.x     Document Type: Article

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