Left ventricular strain, rotation, and torsion as markers of acute myocardial ischemia

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 300, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Moen, Christian Arvei ^a   Salminen, Pirjo Riitta ^a,b   Grong, Ketil ^a   Matre, Knut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Left ventricular function; Perfusion; Pigs; Speckle tracking echocardiography; Tissue doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SWINE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OBSERVER VARIATION; ROTATION; SWINE; TORSION ABNORMALITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79958063099     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01012.2010     Document Type: Article

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