Advanced speckle tracking echocardiography allowing a three-myocardial layer-specific analysis of deformation parameters

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 303-308

  Adamu, Umar ^a   Schmitz, Fabian ^a   Becker, Michael ^a   Kelm, Malte ^a   Hoffmann, Rainer ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Left ventricular function; Strain imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 62449118077     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jen238     Document Type: Article

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