Doppler Tissue Imaging: A Noninvasive Te
✍
Sherif F Nagueh MD; Katherine J Middleton; Helen A Kopelen; William A Zoghbi; Mi
📂
Article
📅
1997
🏛
Elsevier Science
🌐
English
⚖ 285 KB
## Objectives: This investigation was designed 1) to assess whether the early diastolic velocity of the mitral annulus (ea) obtained with doppler tissue imaging (dti) behaves as a preload-independent index of left ventricular (lv) relaxation; and 2) to evaluate the relation of the mitral e/ea ratio