Abstract
Our experience underscores the ability of hand-held echocardiography to identify the association between aortic root dilation and left ventricular mass in a population-based screening among normotensive and hypertensive participants of "The Heart in the City", a project designed to detect pre-clinical echocardiographic markers of heart failure by hand-held echocardiography.
MeSH terms
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Aorta / diagnostic imaging*
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Aorta / pathology
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Blood Pressure
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Diastole
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Electrocardiography / instrumentation*
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Female
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Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging*
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Heart Ventricles / pathology
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Humans
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Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / diagnostic imaging*
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Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / physiopathology
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Male
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Mass Screening*
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Middle Aged
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Prospective Studies
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Systole
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Ultrasonography