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The Pathophysiology of Pericardial Disease—Contributions Derived from Echocardiography/Doppler Studies in Animal Models
Author(s) -
KLOPFENSTEIN H. SIDNEY
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1990.tb00342.x
Subject(s) - pathophysiology , cardiology , confounding , medicine , hemodynamics , doppler echocardiography , disease , pericardial effusion , doppler effect , radiology , diastole , blood pressure , physics , astronomy
The use of acute and chronically prepared animal models of pericardial disease free of the confounding influences of other disease processes have greatly accelerated the development of echocardiographic and Doppler diagnostic methods and have allowed the correlation of these noninvasive findings with hemodynamic abnormalities.