Left atrial size and function are related to pulmonary hypertension in coronary artery disease

Echocardiography

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 535-540

  Miyata Fukuoka, Yoko ^a   Izumo, Masaki ^a   Shimada, Yuichi ^a   Kuwahara, Eiji ^a   Gurudevan, Swaminatha V ^a   Tolstrup, Kirsten ^a   Siegel, Robert J ^a   Shiota, Takahiro ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; left atrial function; left atrial size; pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY SYSTOLIC PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84860435483     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01648.x     Document Type: Article

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