The impact of hypertension as a road to heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: Diagnostic value of two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography for the early impairment of left atrial-left ventricular-arterial coupling

Current Hypertension Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 177-188

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

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^b RAWALPINDI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; Hypertension; Left atrial left ventricular arterial coupling; Twodimensional speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

IVABRADINE;

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; EXERCISE; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LEFT ATRIAL LEFT VENTRICULAR ARTERIAL COUPLING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARLING LAW; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; SYSTOLE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TORSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; COMPLICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FAILURE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 84928954593     PISSN: 15734021     EISSN: 18756506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1573402111666150206123245     Document Type: Article

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