Transthoracic tissue Doppler assessment of left atrial appendage contraction and relaxation: Their changes with aging

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 839-846

  Yoshida, Naoyasu ^a   Okamoto, Mitsunori ^a   Nanba, Kiyomi ^a   Yoshizumi, Masao ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA PREFECTURAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

aging; left atrial appendage function; left atrial appendage wall velocity; tissue Doppler echocardiography; transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; AGING; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77955833755     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01157.x     Document Type: Article

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