Left atrial function during pregnancy: A three-dimensional echocardiographic study

Echocardiography

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1096-1101

  Yosefy, Chaim ^a   Shenhav, Simon ^a   Feldman, Viktor ^a   Sagi, Yair ^a   Katz, Amos ^a   Anteby, Eyal ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

3D Echo; LA volume; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT ATRIAL ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME INDEX; HEART LEFT ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM STROKE VOLUME; HEART LEFT ATRIUM STROKE VOLUME INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LUNG PRESSURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84867399871     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2012.01745.x     Document Type: Article

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