Assessing global and regional left ventricular myocardial function in elderly patients using the bidimensional strain method

Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 978-982

  Zghal, Fathia ^a   Bougteb, Hanane ^b   Réant, Patricia ^b   Lafitte, Stéphane ^b   Roudaut, Raymond ^b  

^a LA RABTA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

elderly; left ventricular function; myocardial strain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BIDIMENSIONAL STRAIN METHOD; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DIAMETER; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELATIVE WALL THICKNESS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRAIN; TWO DIMENSIONAL LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; TWO DIMENSIONAL TRANSVERSAL STRAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 80053580458     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01476.x     Document Type: Article

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