Strain Bull’s Eye Plot Derived from 3D Speckle Tracking Imaging in Children with Dilated Cardiomyopathy

myocardial strain and strain rate imaging: comparison between doppler derived strain imaging and speckle tracking echocardiography

Role of Speckle Tracking Echocardiography in Dilated Cardiomyopathy: A Review

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an important cause of the heart failure. Timely diagnosis and optimal management decrease morbidity and mortality in heart failure patients. Although transthoracic echocardiography is used as the diagnostic test of choice in these patients, new modalities like speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) have promising results in diagnosing these patients in the earli...

Myocardial deformation by speckle tracking in severe dilated cardiomyopathy.

BACKGROUND The high and increasing prevalence of Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) represents a serious public health problem. New technologies are being used aiming at more accurate diagnoses in order to improve therapeutic approach. In this scenario, speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) uses natural myocardial markers to analyze the systolic deformation of the left ventricle (LV). OBJECTIVE T...

is screening imaging necessary in dilated cardiomyopathy?

introduction dilated cardiomyopathy (dcm) is the leading cause of heart failure and arrhythmia. case presentation a 47-year-old male, diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, died due to heart failure. during the screening of his family members, his 17-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son also had dilated cardiomyopathy. another daughter had died suddenly at the age of 12 years. conclusions we he...

Estimation of left ventricular filling pressures by speckle tracking echocardiography in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

AIMS the ratio of early diastolic transmitral flow velocity (E) to early diastolic mitral annular velocity (E(a)) is frequently used to predict an increase in left ventricular filling pressure (LVFP). However, this approach has several limitations. The aim of this study was to test whether additional information is gained by new echocardiographic indexes utilizing strain and strain rate (SR) de...