Exercise strain rate imaging demonstrates normal right ventricular contractile reserve and clarifies ambiguous resting measures in endurance athletes

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 253-262.e1

  La Gerche, André ^a,c,d   Burns, Andrew T ^b   D'Hooge, Jan ^c   MacIsaac, Andrew I ^b   Heidbüchel, Hein ^d   Prior, David L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contractility; Deformation; Exercise; Right ventricle; Strain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDURANCE ATHLETE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT VENTRICULAR CONTRACTILE RESERVE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84857292034     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2011.11.023     Document Type: Article

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