Left ventricular diastolic function is strongly correlated with active emptying of the left atrium: a novel analysis using three-dimensional echocardiography.
Johannes ScherrPhilip JungTibor SchusterLars PollmerGert EiseleFranz GossJens SchneiderMartin HallePublished in: Cardiovascular ultrasound (2016)
Diastolic LV dysfunction results in a reduction in active LA emptying, which is more strongly associated with LV filling pressure than other previously investigated LA parameters.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- acute myocardial infarction
- heart failure
- left atrial
- aortic stenosis
- mitral valve
- oxidative stress
- blood pressure
- pulmonary artery
- inferior vena cava
- ejection fraction
- mass spectrometry
- coronary artery disease
- coronary artery
- aortic valve