Effect of an increase in left ventricular pressure overload on left atrial-left ventricular coupling in patients with hypertension: A two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiographic study

Echocardiography

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 658-666

  Miyoshi, Hirokazu ^a   Oishi, Yoshifumi ^a   Mizuguchi, Yukio ^a   Iuchi, Arata ^a   Nagase, Norio ^a   Ara, Nusrat ^b   Oki, Takashi ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^b RAWALPINDI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

diastolic function; hypertension; left atrium; strain strain rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

DIASTOLIC FUNCTION; HYPERTENSION; LEFT ATRIUM; STRAIN-STRAIN RATE;

CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84879781256     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12117     Document Type: Article

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