Two-dimensional speckle-tracking strain echocardiography in long-term heart transplant patients: A study comparing deformation parameters and ejection fraction derived from echocardiography and multislice computed tomography

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 490-496

  Syeda, Bonni ^a   Höfer, Peter ^a   Pichler, Philipp ^a   Vertesich, Markus ^a   Bergler Klein, Jutta ^a   Roedler, Susanne ^a   Mahr, Stephane ^a   Goliasch, Georg ^a   Zuckermann, Andreas ^a   Binder, Thomas ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Global longitudinal peak systolic strain; Heart transplantation; Speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 80051989198     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jer064     Document Type: Article

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