Age- and gender-dependent left ventricular remodeling

Echocardiography

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1143-1150

  Gebhard, Catherine ^a   Stähli, Barbara E ^a   Gebhard, Caroline E ^a   Tasnady, Hanna ^a   Zihler, Deborah ^a   Wischnewsky, Manfred B ^b   Jenni, Rolf ^a   Tanner, Felix C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

echocardiography; elderly; left ventricular ejection fraction; left ventricular function; left ventricular remodeling; left ventricular volume

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELDERLY; LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION; LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION; LEFT VENTRICULAR REMODELING; LEFT VENTRICULAR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CARDIAC VOLUME; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887021984     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12264     Document Type: Article

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