The Feasibility of Speckle Tracking for Intraoperative Assessment of Regional Myocardial Function by Transesophageal Echocardiography

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 462-467

  Kukucka, Marian ^a   Nasseri, Boris ^a   Tscherkaschin, Alexander ^a   Mladenow, Alexander ^a   Kuppe, Hermann ^a   Habazettl, Helmut ^b  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

inter and intraobserver variability; quantification; regional myocardial function; speckle tracking; strain deformation; wall motion scoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARAMETER; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANESTHESIA; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; OBSERVER VARIATION; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 67650624136     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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