Left atrial volume and function in patients with Behcet's disease assessed by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography

European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 650-655

  Aktürk, Erdal ^a   Yaǧmur, Jülide ^b   Kurtoǧlu, Ertuǧrul ^c   Ermis, Necip ^b   Acikgoz, Nusret ^b   Şener, Serpil ^b   Karakuş, Yasin ^b   Aktürk, Semra ^d   Karincaoǧlu, Yelda ^b   Pekdemir, Hasan ^b   Özdemir, Ramazan ^b  

^a ADIYAMAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Elaziǧ Education and Research Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

^d FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Behcet's disease; Left atrial function; Left atrial volume; Real time three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

ADULT; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BEHCET SYNDROME; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 84866250327     PISSN: 20472404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jer301     Document Type: Article

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