Potential Usefulness and Clinical Relevance of Adding Left Atrial Strain to Left Atrial Volume Index in the Detection of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 1405-1415

  Morris, Daniel A ^a   Belyavskiy, Evgeny ^a   Aravind Kumar, Radhakrishnan ^a   Kropf, Martin ^a   Frydas, Athanasios ^a,b   Braunauer, Kerstin ^a   Marquez, Esteban ^c   Krisper, Maximilian ^a   Lindhorst, Ruhdja ^a   Osmanoglou, Engin ^d   Boldt, Leif Hendrik ^a   Blaschke, Florian ^a   Haverkamp, Wilhelm ^a   Tschöpe, Carsten ^a,b   Edelmann, Frank ^a,b,e   Pieske, Burkert ^a,b,d,f   Pieske Kraigher, Elisabeth ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BERLIN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Germany)

^c Private Clinic of Radiology (Q Diagnostica Scanner Murcia)   (Spain)

^d Meoclinic ^*  (Germany)

^e DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

echocardiography; left atrial; speckle tracking; strain

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT ATRIAL STRAIN; LEFT ATRIAL VOLUME INDEX; LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; POST HOC ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 85034441509     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2017.07.029     Document Type: Article

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