Reproducibility of regional and global longitudinal strains derived from two-dimensional speckle-tracking and Doppler tissue imaging between expert and novice readers during quantitative dobutamine stress echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 880-887

  Yamada, Akira ^a,b   Luis, Sushil A ^a   Sathianathan, Daniel ^a   Khandheria, Bijoy K ^c   Cafaro, James ^a   Hamilton Craig, Christian R ^a   Platts, David G ^a   Haseler, Luke ^b   Burstow, Darryl ^a   Chan, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Doppler tissue imaging; Global longitudinal strain; Regional longitudinal strain; Speckle tracking

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; GLUCOSINOLATE; PROGOITRIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOSINOLATES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84905271279     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2014.04.016     Document Type: Article

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