Imaging and modern assessment of the right ventricle

Minerva Cardioangiologica

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 349-373

  Le Tourneau, T ^a,b   Piriou, N ^b   Donal, E ^c   Deswarte, G ^d   Topilsky, Y ^b   Lamblin, N ^d   Warin Fresse, K ^b   Crochet, D ^b   Damy, T ^e   Trochu, J N ^b  

^a NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Heart ventricles; Sprains and strains

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ANATOMY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; HYPOKINESIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RELAXATION TIME; REVIEW; RIGHT VENTRICULAR SIZE; RIGHT VENTRICULAR WALL THICKNESS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; T WAVE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 80054762036     PISSN: 00264725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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