Myocardial mechanics for the early detection of cardiac sarcoidosis

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 168, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 4820-4821

  Aggeli, Constantina ^a   Felekos, Ioannis ^a   Tousoulis, Dimitris ^a   Gialafos, Elias ^a   Rapti, Aggeliki ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Myocardial function; Sarcoidosis; Speckle tracking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SCREENING; SPECKLE TRACKING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL FUNCTION; SARCOIDOSIS; SPECKLE TRACKING;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 84886414774     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.07.010     Document Type: Article

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