Left ventricular twist and untwist rate provide reliable measures of ventricular function in myocardial ischemia and a wide range of hemodynamic states

Physiological Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Wei ^a   Benharash, Peyman ^a   Ho, Jonathan ^a   Ko, Yoshihiro ^a   Patel, Nikhil A ^a   Mahajan, Aman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Left ventricular twist; LV stiffness; Rotation; Untwisting rate

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; ESMOLOL; FENTANYL; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; XYLAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE COMPLIANCE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMICS; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; INOTROPISM; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; YORKSHIRE PIG;

EID: 85009143753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/phy2.110     Document Type: Article

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