Right atrial size and function assessed with three-dimensional and speckle-tracking echocardiography in 200 healthy volunteers

European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1106-1114

  Peluso, Diletta ^a   Badano, Luigi P ^a   Muraru, Denisa ^a   Dal Bianco, Lucia ^a   Cucchini, Umberto ^a   Kocabay, Gonenc ^a   Kovàcs, Attila ^b   Casablanca, Simona ^a   Iliceto, Sabino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Longitudinal strain; Reference values; Right atrium; Speckle tracking echocardiography; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; REFERENCE VALUES; RIGHT ATRIUM; SPECKLE-TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84879194869     PISSN: 20472404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jet024     Document Type: Article

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