Function over form? Assessing the left atrium in heart failure

European Heart Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 711-714

  Shah, Amil M ^a   Lam, Carolyn S P ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART CYCLE; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SINUS RHYTHM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84940026008     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehu460     Document Type: Editorial

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