Right atrial morphology and function in patients with systemic sclerosis compared to healthy controls: a two-dimensional strain study

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1733-1742

  D’Andrea, Antonello ^a   D’Alto, Michele ^a   Di Maio, Marco ^a   Vettori, Serena ^a   Benjamin, Nicola ^b   Cocchia, Rosangela ^a   Argiento, Paola ^a   Romeo, Emanuele ^a   Di Marco, Giovanni ^a   Russo, Maria Giovanna ^a   Valentini, Gabriele ^a   Calabrò, Raffaele ^a   Bossone, Eduardo ^c   Grünig, Ekkehard ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exercise stress; Non Doppler two dimensional strain; Pulmonary hypertension; Right atrium; Scleroderma; Speckle tracking; Systemic sclerosis < rheumatic diseases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; REST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL STRAIN IMAGING; VEIN DIAMETER; AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HEART ATRIUM; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; ITALY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; ROC CURVE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84964434697     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: 14349949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-016-3279-9     Document Type: Article

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