Left ventricular function in hypertension: New insight by speckle tracking echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 649-657

  Imbalzano, Egidio ^a   Zito, Concetta ^a   Carerj, Scipione ^a   Oreto, Giuseppe ^a   Mandraffino, Giuseppe ^a   Cusmà Piccione, Maurizio ^a   Di Bella, Gianluca ^a   Saitta, Carlo ^a   Saitta, Antonino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

echocardiography; hypertension; left ventricular function; strain; tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79960606894     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01410.x     Document Type: Article

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