Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography in heart transplant patients: Three-year follow-up of deformation parameters and ejection fraction derived from transthoracic echocardiography

European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 181-186

  Pichler, Philipp ^a   Binder, Thomas ^a   Höfer, Peter ^a   Bergler Klein, Jutta ^a   Goliasch, Georg ^a   Lajic, Natalija ^a   Aliabadi, Arezu ^a   Zuckermann, Andreas ^a   Syeda, Bonni ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Deformation parameters; Follow up; Heart transplantation; Speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84863855411     PISSN: 20472404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jer239     Document Type: Article

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