Left ventricular longitudinal strain by speckle-tracking echocardiography is associated with treatment-requiring cardiac allograft rejection

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 359-364

  Sera, Fusako ^a   Kato, Tomoko S ^a   Farr, Maryjane ^a   Russo, Cesare ^a   Jin, Zhezhen ^a   Marboe, Charles C ^a   Di Tullio, Marco R ^a   Mancini, Donna ^a   Homma, Shunichi ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; echocardiography; heart transplant; rejection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT REQUIRING CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; ULTRASOUND; ALLOGRAFT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84899817929     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2014.02.006     Document Type: Article

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