Factors influencing the twisting and untwisting properties of the left ventricle during normal pregnancy

Echocardiography

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 155-163

  Papadopoulou, Elektra ^a   Kaladaridou, Anna ^a   Agrios, John ^a   Matthaiou, John ^a   Pamboukas, Constantinos ^a   Toumanidis, Savvas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Pregnancy; Rotation; Speckle tracking; Strain; Twist

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EARLY DIASTOLIC MITRAL ANNULAR VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOBAL LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PRELOAD; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LATE DIASTOLIC TRANSMITRAL VELOCITY; LEFT ATRIAL DIMENSION; LEFT VENTRICULAR ROTATION MECHANICS; LEFT VENTRICULAR TWIST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MECHANICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL PREGNANCY; PEAK SYSTOLIC TWISTING RATE; PEAK UNTWISTING RATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; ROTATION; SPECKLE TRACKING; STRAIN; TWIST;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TORQUE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84897056957     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12345     Document Type: Article

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