Speckle Tracking Echocardiography Identifies Impaired Longitudinal Strain as a Common Deficit in Various Cardiac Diseases

The use of speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) is becoming an increasingly useful tool in the evaluation of myocardial disease. STE software can track the motion of the specular pattern created by the interference of ultrasound with the myofibers of the heart and provide a quantitative means to...

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Main Authors: John W. Petersen, Janelle Gooden-Ebanks, Robert F. Hamburger, Randy R. Jeffrey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Compuscript Ltd 2018-06-01
Series:Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications
Online Access:https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.15212/CVIA.2017.0040