Open AccessDiastolic abnormalities detected by velocity vector imaging in the presence of coronary ischemia: A pilot stress echocardiographic study
Author(s) -
Brian Edward Miller,
Angel LópezCandales
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
heart views
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-5123
pISSN - 1995-705X
DOI - 10.4103/1995-705x.182647
Subject(s) - medicine , diastole , cardiology , coronary artery disease , velocity vector , stress testing (software) , ischemia , blood pressure , computer science , engineering , programming language , aerospace engineering
The ischemic cascade has long been known to begin with diastolic dysfunction before detectable systolic abnormalities. The advent of speckle-tracking imaging and velocity vector imaging (VVI) has provided accurate and reproducible interpretation of systolic abnormalities in numerous disease processes; however, this imaging tool has been only recently been proposed for detecting diastolic abnormalities.