A comparison between brachial and echocardiographic systolic time intervals.

Systolic time interval (STI) is an established noninvasive technique for the assessment of cardiac function. Brachial STIs can be automatically determined by an ankle-brachial index (ABI)-form device. The aims of this study are to evaluate whether the STIs measured from ABI-form device can represent...

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Main Authors: Ho-Ming Su, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Po-Chao Hsu, Chun-Yuan Chu, Wen-Hsien Lee, Szu-Chia Chen, Chee-Siong Lee, Wen-Chol Voon, Wen-Ter Lai, Sheng-Hsiung Sheu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3567004?pdf=render