Role of the left atrial function on the pseudonormalization of the transmitral flow velocity pattern evaluated by two-dimensional tissue tracking technique

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 365-371

  Mukaide, Daisuke ^a   Tabata, Tomotsugu ^b   Kinoshita, Kosuke ^a   Yokoi, Hiroatsu ^a   Fujiwara, Wakaya ^a   Inami, Osamu ^a   Sugishita, Yoshinori ^a   Ukai, Gen ^a   Yoshinaga, Masataka ^a   Kamada, Tomohito ^a   Nomura, Masanori ^a   Izawa, Hideo ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY BANTANE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Nishida Koutoku Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial function; Diastolic dysfunction; Doppler ultrasound; Echocardiography; Transthoracic

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART PRELOAD; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; INFARCTION; LOWER BODY POSITIVE PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRESSURE AND TENSION; TRANSMITRAL FLOW VELOCITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84877594244     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: 18764738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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