Quantitative assessment of atrial conduit function: a new index of diastolic dysfunction

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 17-28

  Nappo, Rosaria ^a   Degiovanni, Anna ^a   Bolzani, Virginia ^a   Sartori, Chiara ^a   Di Giovine, Gabriella ^a   Cerini, Paolo ^a   Fossaceca, Rita ^a   Kovács, Sándor J ^b   Marino, Paolo N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diastolic dysfunction; Full volume 3D echocardiography; Left atrial conduit function

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIAL STRAIN; CARDIAC CONDUIT; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUIT FUNCTION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIAL VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT ATRIAL CONDUIT VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTRICULAR STRAIN; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 84955176956     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-015-0882-8     Document Type: Article

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