Tissue doppler time intervals predict the occurrence of rehospitalization in chronic heart failure: Data from the daunia heart failure registry

Echocardiography

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 906-913

  Correale, Michele ^a   Totaro, Antonio ^a   Greco, Carmen Adriana ^a   Musaico, Francesco ^a   De Rosa, Fiorella ^a   Ferraretti, Armando ^a   Ieva, Riccardo ^a   Di Biase, Matteo ^a   Brunetti, Natale Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

chronic heart failure; echocardiography; ejection time; systolic interval times; tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; AGED; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION TIME; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC TIME INTERVAL; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84866137093     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2012.01729.x     Document Type: Article

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