Nonsymmetric myocardial contribution to supranormal right ventricular function in the athlete's heart: Combined assessment by speckle tracking and real time three-dimensional echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 996-1004

  Esposito, Roberta ^a   Galderisi, Maurizio ^a   Schiano Lomoriello, Vincenzo ^a   Santoro, Alessandro ^a   De Palma, Daniela ^a   Ippolito, Renato ^a   Muscariello, Riccardo ^a   Santoro, Ciro ^a   Guerra, Germano ^b   Cameli, Matteo ^c   Mondillo, Sergio ^c   De Simone, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Athlete's heart; Longitudinal strain; Right ventricle; Speckle tracking echocardiography; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EXERCISE INDUCED CARDIOMEGALY; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SPORT; YOUNG MODULUS;

ADULT; CARDIOMEGALY, EXERCISE-INDUCED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SPORTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84908069323     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12499     Document Type: Article

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