Left atrial work in patients with stable chronic heart failure: Factors associated and prognostic role

Echocardiography

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 123-132

  Mazzone, Carmine ^a   Cioffi, Giovanni ^b   Faganello, Giorgio ^a   Cherubini, Antonella ^a   Tarantini, Luigi ^c   Di Lenarda, Andrea ^a   Russo, Tiziano Edoardo ^b   Selmi, Alessandro ^b   Stefenelli, Carlo ^b   Furlanello, Francesco ^b  

^a ASS 1 Triestina   (Italy)

^b Villa Bianca Hospital   (Italy)

^c SAN MARTINO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Kinetic energy; Left atrial function; Renal dysfunction

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SIZE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT ATRIAL KINETIC ENERGY; LEFT ATRIUM SIZE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

HEART FAILURE; KINETIC ENERGY; LEFT ATRIAL FUNCTION; RENAL DYSFUNCTION;

AGED; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84897049625     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12325     Document Type: Article

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