A simple method to predict impaired right ventricular performance and disease severity in chronic pulmonary hypertension using strain rate imaging

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-94

  Utsunomiya, Hiroto ^a   Nakatani, Satoshi ^b   Okada, Takenori ^a   Kanzaki, Hideaki ^c   Kyotani, Shingo ^c   Nakanishi, Norifumi ^c   Kihara, Yasuki ^a   Kitakaze, Masafumi ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pulmonary hypertension; Right ventricular performance; Strain rate imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INDEX; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STRAIN RATE IMAGING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 79951721617     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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