Myocardial strain abnormalities in fetal congenital heart disease assessed by speckle tracking echocardiography

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 123-130

  Germanakis, Ioannis ^a,b,c   Matsui, Hikoro ^a,b   Gardiner, Helena M ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Echocardiography; Fetus; Longitudinal function; Speckle tracking; Strain

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTERIAL TRUNK; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MYOCARDIAL STRAIN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; SPECKLE TRACKING; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84864872210     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334413     Document Type: Article

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