Association of left atrial reservoir function with left atrial structural remodeling related to left ventricular dysfunction in asymptomatic patients with hypertension: Evaluation by two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 155-165

  Miyoshi, Hirokazu ^a   Oishi, Yoshifumi ^a   Mizuguchi, Yukio ^a   Iuchi, Arata ^a   Nagase, Norio ^a   Ara, Nusrat ^b   Oki, Takashi ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^b RAWALPINDI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

2 D speckle tracking echocardiography; Hypertension; LA remodeling; LA reservoir function; LV dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM REMODELING; HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; COMPLICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; PROGABIDE;

ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84924770557     PISSN: 10641963     EISSN: 15256006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10641963.2014.933962     Document Type: Article

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