Left atrial volume and strain parameters using echocardiography in a black population

European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 350-355

  Meel, Ruchika ^a   Khandheria, Bijoy K ^b   Peters, Ferande ^a   Libhaber, Elena ^a   Nel, Samantha ^a   Essop, Mohammed R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b AURORA SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

atrium; echocardiography; imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; BODY SURFACE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM RESERVOIR STRAIN; HEART LEFT ATRIUM VOLUME; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART ATRIUM; HYPERTROPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 85022347321     PISSN: 20472404     EISSN: 20472412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jew062     Document Type: Article

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