Early abnormality detected by speckle-tracking echocardiography in a patient with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis

Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 69-71

  Orii, Makoto ^a   Hirata, Kumiko ^a   Tanimoto, Takashi ^a   Ota, Shingo ^a   Shiono, Yasutsugu ^a   Shimamura, Kunihiro ^a   Ishibashi, Kohei ^a   Yamano, Takashi ^a   Ino, Yasushi ^a   Kitabata, Hironori ^a   Yamaguchi, Tomoyuki ^a   Kubo, Takashi ^a   Imanishi, Toshio ^a   Akasaka, Takashi ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 Dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography; Cardiac sarcoidosis; Delayed enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Fasting fluorine 18 deoxyglucose positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC SARCOIDOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CASE REPORT; CHEST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LYMPHOMA; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SARCOIDOSIS; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VASCULAR FIBROSIS;

EID: 84878642856     PISSN: 13490222     EISSN: 1880344X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12574-012-0160-y     Document Type: Article

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