Myocardial strain imaging for early detection of cardiac involvement in patients with Duchenne's progressive muscular dystrophy

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 598-608

  Mori, Kazuhiro ^a   Hayabuchi, Yasunobu ^a   Inoue, Miki ^a   Suzuki, Mitsujiro ^a   Sakata, Miho ^a   Nakagawa, Ryuji ^a   Kagami, Shoji ^a   Tatara, Katsunori ^b   Hirayama, Yoshimi ^c   Abe, Yasuhiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b Yoshinogawa   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Duchenne's progressive muscular dystrophy; Strain; Tissue Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34250744639     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00437.x     Document Type: Article

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