Reference values for myocardial two-dimensional strain echocardiography in a healthy pediatric and young adult cohort

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 625-636

  Marcus, Karen A ^a   Mavinkurve Groothuis, Annelies M C ^a   Barends, Marlieke ^a   Van Dijk, Arie ^a   Feuth, Ton ^a   De Korte, Chris ^a   Kapusta, Livia ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Child; Healthy; Reference value; Speckle tracking; Two dimensional strain echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL STRAIN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MURMURS; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79956353344     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2011.01.021     Document Type: Article

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