Insights into left atrial response to pressure and volume overload

Insights into left atrial response to pressure and volume overload

The general purpose of this thesis is to establish the ability of Speckle Tracking Echocardiography (STE) in assessing left atrial (LA) response to pressure and volume overload respectively in aortic stenosis (AS) and mitral regurgitation (MR), and to evaluate its accuracy in predicting LA and right...

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Main Author: Lisi, Matteo
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för folkhälsa och klinisk medicin 2016
Subjects:
Keywords Mitral regurgitation
aortic stenosis
speckle tracking echocardiography
heart transplantation
left atrial strain
left ventricualr function
right ventricular function
myocardial fibrosis
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-127294
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