Nephrology
Tissue Doppler-derived E/e' ratio as a parameter for assessing diastolic heart failure and as a predictor of mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease
Min Keun Kim, Biro Kim, Jun Young Lee, Jae Seok Kim, Byoung-Geun Han, Seung Ok Choi, Jae Won Yang
Korean J Intern Med. 2013;28(1):35-44. Published online December 28, 2012
Background/AimsDiastolic dysfunction occurs frequently in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and is associated with heart failure (HF) or mortality. We investigated whether the ratio of early diastolic mitral inflow velocity to early diastolic mitral annulus velocity (..
|