Right atrial speckle tracking analysis as a novel noninvasive method for pulmonary hemodynamics assessment in patients with chronic systolic heart failure

Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 658-664

  Padeletti, Margherita ^a   Cameli, Matteo ^a   Lisi, Matteo ^a   Zacà, Valerio ^a   Tsioulpas, Charilos ^a   Bernazzali, Sonia ^a   MacCherini, Massimo ^a   Mondillo, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

echocardiography; heart failure; pulmonary hypertension; right atrium

Indexed keywords

NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SWAN GANZ CATHETER; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE;

BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79960585759     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01413.x     Document Type: Article

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