Endocardial and epicardial deformations in cardiac amyloidosis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-2-D feature strain echocardiography

Circulation Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1200-1208

  di Bella, Gianluca ^a   Minutoli, Fabio ^a   Pingitore, Alessandro ^b   Zito, Concetta ^a   Mazzeo, Anna ^a   Aquaro, Giovanni D ^b   di Leo, Rita ^a   Recupero, Antonino ^a   Stancanelli, Claudia ^a   Baldari, Sergio ^a   Vita, Giuseppe ^a   Carerj, Scipione ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

2 D feature strain echocardiography; Cardiac amyloidosis; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Myocardial strain

Indexed keywords

PREALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ENDOCARDIAL DISEASE; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AMYLOIDOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HUMANS; PERICARDIUM; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79955692271     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-10-0844     Document Type: Article

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