Combining computer modelling and cardiac imaging to understand right ventricular pump function

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1486-1498

  Walmsley, John ^a   Van Everdingen, Wouter ^b   Cramer, Maarten J ^b   Prinzen, Frits W ^a   Delhaas, Tammo ^a   Lumens, Joost ^a,c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; CircAdapt; Congenital heart disease; Pulmonary arterial hypertension

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; COMPUTER MODEL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; IMAGING; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; THORAX PRESSURE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPLICATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODELING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 85030750964     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvx154     Document Type: Review

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