Open AccessPractical Guidance in Echocardiographic Assessment of Global Longitudinal Strain
Author(s) -
Kazuaki Negishi,
Tomoko Negishi,
Koji Kurosawa,
Krasimira Hristová,
Bogdan A Popescu,
Dragoș Vinereanu,
Satoshi Yuda,
Thomas H. Marwick
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
jacc. cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.79
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1936-878X
pISSN - 1876-7591
DOI - 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.06.013
Subject(s) - strain (injury) , cardiology , medicine , medical physics
there has been increasing interest in the measurement of global myocardial strain because it is a sensitive and robust index to detect subclinical myocardial dysfunction, with a defined normal range [(1)][1]. Numerous commercially-available versions of speckle tracking software are available for
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