Myocardial mechanics: Understanding and applying three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography in clinical practice

Echocardiography

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 861-872

  Ammar, Khawaja Afzal ^a   Paterick, Timothy E ^a   Khandheria, Bijoy K ^a   Jan, M Fuad ^a   Kramer, Christopher ^a   Umland, Matt M ^a   Tercius, Alix J ^a   Baratta, Lisa ^a   Tajik, A Jamil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

myocardial mechanics; strain; three dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AMYLOIDOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERY; CARDIOLOGIST; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEART CYCLE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84865069087     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2012.01712.x     Document Type: Review

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