State diagrams of the heart – a new approach to describing cardiac mechanics
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Cardiac time intervals have been described as a measure of cardiac performance, where prolongation, shortening and delay of the different time intervals have been evaluated as markers of cardiac dysfunction. A relatively recently dev...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-05-01
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| Series: | Cardiovascular Ultrasound |
| Online Access: | http://www.cardiovascularultrasound.com/content/7/1/22 |