Sources of variation in assessing left atrial functions by 2D speckle-tracking echocardiography

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 370-381

  Rimbaş, Roxana Cristina ^a,b,c   Mihăilă, Sorina ^b   Vinereanu, Dragoş ^a,b  

^a University and Emergency Hospital   (Romania)

^b CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^c VICTOR BABES NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Left atrial strain; Speckle tracking echocardiography; Temporal landmark

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART CONTRACTION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84959570229     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: 16152573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-014-0602-8     Document Type: Article

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