Optimal Analysis of Left Atrial Strain by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography: P-wave versus R-wave Trigger

Echocardiography

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1241-1249

  Hayashi, Shuji ^a   Yamada, Hirotsugu ^a   Bando, Mika ^a   Saijo, Yoshihito ^a   Nishio, Susumu ^a   Hirata, Yukina ^a   Klein, Allan L ^b   Sata, Masataka ^a  

^a TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

left atrium; strain; three dimensional echocardiography; two dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84937512721     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12834     Document Type: Article

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