The Pathophysiology of Heart Failure With Normal Ejection Fraction: Exercise Echocardiography Reveals Complex Abnormalities of Both Systolic and Diastolic Ventricular Function Involving Torsion, Untwist, and Longitudinal Motion - YU TING TAN; WENZELBURGER, Frauke; LEE, Eveline; HEATLIE, Grant; LEYVA, Francisco; PATEL, Kiran; FRENNEAUX, Michael; SANDERSON, John E (Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2009)
Keywords: Aged; Biological and medical sciences; Cardiology; Cardiology. Vascular system; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular system; Case-Control Studies; Diastole; Echocardiography, Doppler, Color - statistics & numerical data; Exercise - physiology; Exercise Test; Female; Fractions; Heart; Heart attacks; Heart failure; Heart failure, cardiogenic pulmonary edema, cardiac enlargement; Heart Failure, Diastolic - diagnostic imaging; Heart Failure, Diastolic - physiopathology; Heart rate; Hemodynamics; Humans; Investigative techniques of hemodynamics; Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects); Male; Medical sciences; Observer Variation; Oxygen Consumption; Rotation; Software; Studies; Systole; Torsion Abnormality; Ultrasonic investigative techniques; Ventricular Function; Sonography; Physical exercise; Heart failure; Motion; Cardiac performance; Echocardiography; Diastole; Pathophysiology; Cardiovascular disease; Normal; Complexes; Heart disease; Exercise tolerance test; Anomaly; Circulatory system; Hemodynamics; Cardiology; Torsion; Ejection fraction