To Be, or Not to Be Diastolic: About Natural Mechanical Waves After Mitral Valve Closure

JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2022 Dec;15(12):2035-2037. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2022.09.016. Epub 2022 Nov 16.

Authors

Olivier Villemain¹, Mathieu Pernot²

Affiliations

¹ Labatt Family Heart Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: olivier.villemain@sickkids.ca.
² Physics for Medicine, INSERM U1273, ESPCI, CNRS, PSL Research University, Paris, France.

PMID: 36481070
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2022.09.016

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Keywords: cardiac function; myocardial stiffness; ultrafast ultrasound imaging.

Publication types

Editorial
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MeSH terms

Diastole
Humans
Mitral Valve* / diagnostic imaging
Mitral Valve* / surgery
Predictive Value of Tests