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Echocardiographic Assessment of Cardiac Anatomy and Function in Adult Rats
Published on: December 13, 2019
Diastolic function: a sonographer's approach to the essential echocardiographic measurements of left ventricular
Gregory Gilman1, Tishri A Nelson, William H Hansen
1Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Abstract:
Noninvasive assessment of left ventricular filling pressures by echocardiography has been validated by invasive hemodynamic studies and correlated with clinical findings. A comprehensive echocardiographic examination based on the referral diagnosis and patient symptomatology routinely includes efforts to measure specific parameters of left ventricular diastolic function. We provide a step-by-step approach to goal-directed echocardiographic assessment of diastolic function.
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