Left ventricular torsion by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography in patient with A-type amyloid heart disease

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 818.e5-818.e9

  Karabay, Can Yucel ^a   Kocabay, Gonenc ^a  

^a Ko uyolu Kartal Heart Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cardiac amyloidosis; Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction; Torsion; Two dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID A PROTEIN; CONGO RED; CREATININE; CRYSTAL VIOLET; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM; UREA;

ABDOMINAL FAT ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ADULT; ALBUMINURIA; ANOREXIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CLONAL VARIATION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY EXAMINATION; MALE; MECHANICAL TORSION; MEDICAL HISTORY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERITONITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PULSE RATE; RECURRENT FEVER; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; UREMIA; URINALYSIS; URINE; URINE VOLUME; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 79959537376     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2010.09.016     Document Type: Article

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