Linking left ventricular function and mural architecture: What does the clinician need to know?

Heart

Volumn 100, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 1289-1298

  Partridge, John B ^a   Smerup, Morten H ^b   Petersen, Steffen E ^c   Niederer, Peter F ^d   Anderson, Robert H ^e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Centre for Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging National Institute for Health Research London Chest Hospital ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MURAL THICKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOMERE;

BASIC SCIENCE; CARDIAC FUNCTION;

HEART VENTRICLES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; ORGAN SIZE; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84904577476     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304571     Document Type: Review

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