Evaluation of atrial electromechanical conduction delay in case of hemodynamically insignificant rheumatic heart disease: A tissue Doppler study

Cardiology Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 683-690

  Cagdas, Metin ^a   Velibey, Yalcin ^a   Guvenc, Tolga Sinan ^a   Gungor, Baris ^a   Guzelburc, Ozge ^a   Calik, Nazmi ^a   Ugur, Murat ^a   Tekkesin, Ahmet Ilker ^a   Gurkan, Kadir ^a   Eren, Mehmet ^a  

^a DR SIYAMI ERSEK THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atrial electromechanical conduction delay; Echocardiography; Hemodynamically insignificant rheumatic heart disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIAL ELECTROMECHANICAL CONDUCTION; ATRIAL ELECTROMECHANICAL DELAY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; RHEUMATIC CARDITIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; AMBULATORY ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; COMPLICATION; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84983158350     PISSN: 18975593     EISSN: 1898018X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/CJ.a2015.0043     Document Type: Article

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