Assessing Contractile Function When Ejection Fraction Is Normal: A Case for Strain Imaging

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Biering Sørensen, Tor ^a,b   Solomon, Scott D ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

echocardiography; Editorials; sepsis; shock; strain; ventricular ejection fraction

Indexed keywords

DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; EDITORIAL; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART CYCLE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE QUALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPLICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MALE; PROCEDURES; SEPSIS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEPSIS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84947796604     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.004181     Document Type: Editorial

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