Diastolic electromechanical coupling: Association of the ecg t-peak to t-end interval with echocardiographic markers of diastolic dysfunction

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 537-543

  Sauer, Andrew ^a   Wilcox, Jane E ^a   Andrei, Adin Cristian ^a   Passman, Rod ^a   Goldberger, Jeffrey J ^a   Shah, Sanjiv J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diastole; ECG; Echocardiography; Repolarization; Tissue doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; EXERCISE; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QT INTERVAL; REST; STRESS; T WAVE AMPLITUDE;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84863697166     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.111.969717     Document Type: Article

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