Mechanical alternans in human idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy is caused with impaired force-frequency relationship and enhanced poststimulation potentiation

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 336-344

  Kashimura, Takeshi ^a   Kodama, Makoto ^a   Tanaka, Komei ^a   Sonoda, Keiko ^a   Watanabe, Satoru ^a   Ohno, Yukako ^a   Tomita, Makoto ^a   Obata, Hiroaki ^a   Mitsuma, Wataru ^a   Ito, Masahiro ^a   Hirono, Satoru ^a   Hanawa, Haruo ^a   Aizawa, Yoshifusa ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternans; Calcium; Contractility; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE DP-DT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HEART STIMULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; POSTSTIMULATION POTENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSUS ALTERNANS; STEADY STATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 84878705927     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: 16152573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-012-0251-8     Document Type: Article

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