Practical guidance in echocardiographic assessment of global longitudinal strain

JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Apr;8(4):489-492. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.06.013. Epub 2014 Aug 13.

Authors

Kazuaki Negishi¹, Tomoko Negishi¹, Koji Kurosawa², Krasimira Hristova³, Bogdan A Popescu⁴, Dragos Vinereanu⁴, Satoshi Yuda⁵, Thomas H Marwick⁶

Affiliations

¹ Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
² Gunma University, Gunma, Japan.
³ National Heart Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria.
⁴ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania.
⁵ Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan.
⁶ Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Electronic address: tom.marwick@utas.edu.au.

PMID: 25129519
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.06.013

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

Artifacts
Echocardiography / methods*
Heart Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Diseases / physiopathology*
Humans
Image Enhancement / methods