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Kim YJ, Jones M, Greenberg NL, Popovic ZB, Sitges M, Bauer F, Thomas JD, Shiota T

Evaluation of left ventricular contractile function using noninvasively determined single-beat end-systolic elastance in mitral regurgitation: experimental validation and clinical application.

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2007 Sep;20(9):1086-92, PMID: 17566701

We performed this study to validate the single-beat estimation of end-systolic elastance (E(es)) in an animal model of chronic mitral regurgitation (MR) and to use E(es) to predict postoperative left ventricular (LV) systolic function with the noninvasively derived single-beat E(es) (E(es-s)) in patients with MR.

CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS