The right ventricular response to high afterload: Comparison between healthy persons and patients with transposition of the great arteries: A 2D strain study

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1256-1262

  Becker, Michael ^a,b   Hümpel, Carmen ^a   Ocklenburg, Christina ^a   Muehler, Eberhard ^a   Schroeder, Joerg ^a   Eickholt, Christian ^a   Hoffmann, Rainer ^a   Marx, Nikolaus ^a   Franke, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Siloah Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

echocardiography; left ventricular function; myocardial deformation imaging; right ventricular function; transposition of great arteries

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; AMIODARONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; PHENPROCOUMON;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS;

EID: 78649640129     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01239.x     Document Type: Article

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