Assessment of atrial electromechanical delay by tissue Doppler echocardiography in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 344-350

  Pala, Selcuk ^a   Tigen, Kursat ^a   Karaahmet, Tansu ^a   Dundar, Cihan ^a   Kilicgedik, Alev ^a   Güler, Ahmet ^a   Cevik, Cihan ^b   Kirma, Cevat ^a   Basaran, Yelda ^c  

^a Cardiology Department   (Turkey)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atrial electromechanical delay; Dilated cardiomyopathy; P wave dispersion

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIAL ELECTROMECHANICAL DELAY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77953554116     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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