Simultaneous doppler tracing of transmitral inflow and mitral annular velocity as an estimate of elevated left ventricular filling pressure in patients with atrial fibrillation

Circulation Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 675-681

  Wada, Yasuaki ^a   Murata, Kazuya ^b   Tanaka, Takeo ^a   Nose, Yoshio ^a   Kihara, Chikage ^a   Uchida, Kosuke ^a   Okuda, Shinichi ^a   Susa, Takehisa ^a   Kishida, Yukari ^b   Matsuzaki, Masunori ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Left ventricular filling pressure; Tissue Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL ANNULAR VELOCITY; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSMITRAL INFLOW;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84863236814     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-11-0703     Document Type: Article

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