Strain Doppler echocardiography can identify longitudinal myocardial dysfunction derived from edema in acute myocarditis

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 279-280

  Di Bella, Gianluca ^a   Coglitore, Sebastiano ^a   Zimbalatti, Carmelo ^a   Minutoli, Fabio ^a   Zito, Concetta ^a   Patane', Salvatore ^b   Carerj, Scipione ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b Cardiologia Nuovo Presidio Ospedaliero Cutroni Zodda Barcellona PdG(Me)   (Italy)

Author keywords

Edema; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocarditis; Strain Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART EDEMA; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EDEMA; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDITIS;

EID: 42649084003     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.01.110     Document Type: Article

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