Left atrial dysfunction detected by speckle tracking in patients with systemic sclerosis

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Agoston, Gergely ^a   Gargani, Luna ^b   Miglioranza, Marcelo Haertel ^c,d   Caputo, Maria ^e   Badano, Luigi Paolo ^c   Moreo, Antonella ^f   Muraru, Denisa ^c   Mondillo, Sergio ^e   Moggi Pignone, Alberto ^g   Matucci Cerinic, Marco ^g   Sicari, Rosa ^b   Picano, Eugenio ^b   Varga, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d Rio Grande do Sul Cardiology Institute   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^f OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM DYSFUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL VALUE; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART DISEASES; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84908080336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-12-30     Document Type: Article

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