Population
Normal subjects aged 7 days to 273 months (n=99 for conventional pulsed Doppler, n=30 for tissue Doppler)
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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May inform age-specific pediatric RV diastolic reference values; hypothesis-generating and requires longitudinal validation before clinical adoption.
Right ventricular diastolic performance matures with age in normal children, as reflected by age-related increases in tricuspid inflow and myocardial early diastolic velocities.
Yasuoka et al. (1999) studied this question.
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