Speckle tracking-derived myocardial tissue deformation imaging in twin-twin transfusion syndrome: Differences in strain and strain rate between donor and recipient twins

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 131-137

  Rychik, Jack ^a   Zeng, Shi ^a   Bebbington, Michael ^a   Szwast, Anita ^a   Quartermain, Michael ^a   Natarajan, Shobha ^a   Johnson, Mark ^a   Tian, Zhiyun ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal cardiac function; Fetal heart; Speckle tracking; Twin twin transfusion syndrome; Vector velocity imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RECIPIENT; SPECKLE TRACKING IMAGING; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; UMBILICAL ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; PULSATILE FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84864871649     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000335403     Document Type: Article

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