Open AccessEarly speckle-tracking echocardiography predicts left ventricle remodeling after acute st-segment elevation myocardial infarction
Author(s) -
Donato Mele,
Marianrdozza,
Elisabetta Chiodi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of cardiovascular echography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.255
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2347-193X
pISSN - 2211-4122
DOI - 10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_2_17
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , speckle tracking echocardiography , ejection fraction , myocardial infarction , timi , ventricle , ventricular remodeling , revascularization , cardiac magnetic resonance imaging , percutaneous coronary intervention , magnetic resonance imaging , heart failure , radiology
Prediction of the left ventricular remodeling (LVR) after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in patients treated with effective myocardial reperfusion is challenging.