Early impairment of left ventricular function in patients with systemic hypertension: New insights with 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography

Background: Two-dimensional strain imaging allows rapid and accurate analysis of regional left ventricular (LV) principal strains in the longitudinal, radial, and circumferential directions. The aim of this study was to assess the ability of subtle differences in LV principal strains to characterize...

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Auteurs principaux: Shantanu P. Sengupta, Giuseppe Caracciolo, Caleb Thompson, Haruhiko Abe, Partho P. Sengupta
Format: Article
Langue:English
Publié: Elsevier 2013-01-01
Collection:Indian Heart Journal
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Accès en ligne:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019483212003100