Quantitative analysis of left atrial function in asymptomatic patients with b-thalassemia major using real-time three-dimensional echocardiography

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Aggeli, Constantina ^a   Felekos, Ioannis ^a   Poulidakis, Emmanuel ^a   Aggelis, Athanasios ^a   Tousoulis, Dimitrios ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

b Thalassemia major; left atrial function; Real time 3D echocardiography

Indexed keywords

IRON CHELATING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BETA THALASSEMIA; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 82055164146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-9-38     Document Type: Article

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