Assessment of the helical ventricular myocardial band using standard echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 310-318

  Hayabuchi, Yasunobu ^a   Sakata, Miho ^a   Kagami, Shoji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

echocardiography; helical ventricular myocardial band; speckle tracking; strain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HELICAL VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIAL BAND; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; INFANT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 84922643382     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12624     Document Type: Article

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