Reversible changes of left atrial function during pregnancy assessed by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Song, Guang ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Ren, Weidong ^a   Qiao, Wei ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Zhan, Ying ^a   Bi, Wenjing ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIASTOLIC STRAIN RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM ACTIVE EMPTYING INDEX; HEART LEFT ATRIUM ACTIVE VOLUME; HEART LEFT ATRIUM EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM EXPANSION INDEX; HEART LEFT ATRIUM FILLING VOLUME; HEART LEFT ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM LONGITUDINAL SYSTOLIC STRAIN; HEART LEFT ATRIUM MAXIMUM VOLUME; HEART LEFT ATRIUM MINIMAL VOLUME; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PASSIVE EMPTYING INDEX; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PASSIVE VOLUME; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PREATRIAL CONTRACTION VOLUME; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; LATE DIASTOLIC STRAIN RATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYSTOLIC STRAIN RATE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADAPTATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PUERPERIUM; SYSTOLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CARDIAC VOLUME; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE;

EID: 84928656989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125347     Document Type: Article

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