Left Atrial Systolic and Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients with Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis: A Study Using Speckle Tracking and Conventional Echocardiography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Shuang ^a   Ma, Chunyan ^a   Ren, Weidong ^a   Yang, Jun ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Li, Sha ^a   Cheng, Yanbin ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EMPTYING INDEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EARLY DIASTOLIC STRAIN RATE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; LATE DIASTOLIC STRAIN RATE; LEFT ATRIAL DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LEFT ATRIAL SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LEFT ATRIUM EXPANSION INDEX; LEFT ATRIUM GLOBAL SYSTOLIC STRAIN; MALE; MAXIMUM LEFT ATRIUM VOLUME; MINIMUM LEFT ATRIUM VOLUME; PASSIVE EMPTYING INDEX; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC STRAIN RATE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE;

EID: 84879182513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068718     Document Type: Article

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