Regional and Global Right Ventricular Function in Healthy Individuals Aged 20–90 Years: A Pulsed Doppler Tissue Imaging Study Umeå General Population Heart Study
Abstract:The aim of the present study was to describe regional and global right ventricular (RV) function in a wide age range of healthy subjects of both sexes. We studied 255 (125 females) healthy individuals randomly selected from the Umeå General Population Register, age 58 +/- 19 (range 22-89) years. RV function was studied using myocardial tissue Doppler imaging of the RV free wall. Isovolumic contraction (IVCv), systolic (Sv), early (Ev), and late (Av) diastolic velocities were measured. Furthermore, isovolumic p… Show more
“…Umea General Population Heart Study pro-vedena u Švedskoj, bavila se analizom regionalne funkcije desne komore kod 235 zdravih osoba, starosne dobi od 20 do 90 godina [19,20]. U našoj studiji, pulsni tkivni Doppler smo koristili u evaluaciji sistolne funkcije mjerenjem brzine kontrakcije, trajanja sistolne kontrakcije, te izračunavanjem indeksa miokardne performanse odnosno Tei ineksa.…”