Echocardiography and a quest of the promised land of the accurate assessment of cardiac mechanics.

This editorial refers to ‘Feasibility and reproducibility of left ventricular rotation parameters measured by speckle tracking echocardiography’ by Bas M. van Dalen et al., pp. 669–76, ‘Interpretation of two-dimensional and tissue Doppler-derived strain (1) and strain rate data: is there a need to normalize for individual variability in left ventricular morphology?’ by David Oxborough et al., pp. 677–82, and ‘Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular untwist rate: comparison of tissue Doppler and speckle tracking methodologies’ by V. Ferferieva et al., pp. 683–90, in this issue.