The role of exercise echocardiography in the diagnostics of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 591-602

  Meluzín, Jaroslav ^a   Sitar, Jan ^a   Křístek, Jan ^a   Prosecký, Robert ^a   Pešl, Martin ^a   Podroužková, Helena ^a   Soška, Vladimír ^a   Panovský, Roman ^a   Dušek, Ladislav ^b  

^a ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Diastolic heart failure; Exercise echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE WITH NORMAL EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIROMETRY;

AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; ODDS RATIO; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 80051964773     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jer082     Document Type: Article

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