Global and Regional Left Ventricular Strain Indices in Post-Myocardial Infarction Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and Moderately Abnormal Ejection Fraction

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 407-417

  Nguyen, Bich Lien ^a   Capotosto, Lidia ^a   Persi, Alessandro ^a   Placanica, Attilio ^a   Rafique, Asim ^b   Piccirillo, Gianfranco ^a   Gaudio, Carlo ^a   Gang, Eli S ^b   Siegel, Robert J ^b   Vitarelli, Antonio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Myocardial infarction; Speckle tracking echocardiography; Sudden cardiac death; Ventricular arrhythmias

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION PATIENTS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; SPECKLE TRACKING; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATHS; VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS; VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

STRAIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BORDER ZONE CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRAIN; BORDER ZONE LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOBAL LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT VENTRICULAR MECHANICAL DISPERSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTERIOR INFERIOR WALL CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRAIN; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84922741870     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.09.025     Document Type: Article

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