The pathophysiology of pericardial disease--contributions derived from echocardiography/Doppler studies in animal models.
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.
Klopfenstein
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Department of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27103.
D000818:Animals; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000503:physiopathology; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004285:Dogs; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D006439:Hemodynamics; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000503:physiopathology; D010496:Pericardium / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*