Echocardiographic assessment of myocardial strain

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 58, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1401-1413

  Gorcsan III, John ^a   Tanaka, Hidekazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

deformation; echocardiography; myocardial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 80053044865     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.06.038     Document Type: Review

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