Myocardial contractile dysfunction associated with increased 3-month and 1-year mortality in hospitalized patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction - Zhong, Liang; Ng, Kenneth K.C.; Sim, Ling Ling; Allen, John Carson; Lau, Yee How; Sim, David K.L.; Lee, Raymond K.K.; Poh, Kian Keong; Chua, Terrance S.J.; Kassab, Ghassan S.; Kwok, Bernard W.K.; Tan, Ru San (International journal of cardiology, 2013)
Keywords: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biological and medical sciences; Cardiology. Vascular system; Cardiovascular; Cardiovascular system; Contractility; Disease Progression; Echocardiography; Echocardiography, Doppler; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Heart; Heart failure; Heart Failure - diagnostic imaging; Heart Failure - mortality; Heart Failure - physiopathology; Heart failure, cardiogenic pulmonary edema, cardiac enlargement; Hospital Mortality - trends; Humans; Inpatients; Investigative techniques of hemodynamics; Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects); Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Myocardial Contraction - physiology; Normalized wall-stress; Pathophysiology; Prognosis; Prospective Studies; Singapore - epidemiology; Stroke Volume - physiology; Survival Rate - trends; Time Factors; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - diagnostic imaging; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - mortality; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - physiopathology; Heart failure; Prognosis; Normalized wall-stress; Pathophysiology; Contractility; Human; Cardiac performance; Wall; Pathogenesis; Mortality; Patient; Cardiovascular disease; Hospitalization; Epidemiology; Stress; Association; Heart disease; Hemodynamics; Cardiology; Ejection fraction