Left heart chamber quantification in obese patients: How does larger body size affect echocardiographic measurements?

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1267-1274

  Zong, Pu ^a   Zhang, Lili ^b   Shaban, Nada M ^c   Peña, Jessica ^c   Jiang, Leng ^d   Taub, Cynthia C ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JACOBI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; Echocardiography; Isometric scaling; Left heart; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIAL ANTEROPOSTERIOR DIMENSION; HEART LEFT ATRIAL VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICULAR END DIASTOLIC DIMENSION; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STROKE VOLUME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84919414411     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2014.07.015     Document Type: Article

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