Evaluation of left atrial volume and function in systemic sclerosis patients using speckle tracking and real-time three-dimensional echocardiography

Anatolian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 316-322

  Ataş, Halil ^a   Kepez, Alper ^a   Tigen, Kürşat ^a   Samadov, Fuad ^b   Özen, Gülsen ^a   Cincin, Altuğ ^a   Sünbül, Murat ^a   Bozbay, Mehmet ^a   Direşkeneli, Haner ^a   Başaran, Yelda ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AZ1007   (Azerbaijan)

Author keywords

Left atrial volume; Real time three dimensional echocardiography; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEFT ATRIAL VOLUME; LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 84994219778     PISSN: 21492263     EISSN: 21492271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5152/AnatolJCardiol.2015.6268     Document Type: Article

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