How the (pediatric) heart works when it contracts application of left ventricular "isovolumic acceleration" as a load-independent index of contractility

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Mar 1;57(9):1108-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.09.062.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Acceleration
  • Child
  • Echocardiography
  • Exercise / physiology*
  • Heart Rate / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Myocardial Contraction / physiology*
  • Reference Values
  • Rest / physiology*
  • Ventricular Function, Left / physiology*