Differentiating cardiac amyloidosis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by use of three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 668-677

  Baccouche, Hannibal ^a   Maunz, Martin ^a   Beck, Torsten ^a   Gaa, Elisabeth ^a   Banzhaf, Michael ^a   Knayer, Ute ^a   Fogarassy, Peter ^a   Beyer, Martin ^a  

^a Department of Medicine II   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D speckle tracking echocardiography; amyloidosis; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYLOIDOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863720356     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2012.01680.x     Document Type: Article

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