Layer-specific quantification of myocardial deformation may disclose the subclinical systolic dysfunction and the mechanism of preserved ejection fraction in patients with hypertension

Int J Cardiol. 2016 Sep 15:219:172-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.06.035. Epub 2016 Jun 14.

Authors

Jing Ping Sun¹, Tingyan Xu², Yan Yang², Xing Sheng Yang¹, Qing Shang¹, Yan Li², Jiguang Wang², Bryan P Yan³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT., Hong Kong.
² The Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
³ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT., Hong Kong. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 27327503
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.06.035

No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiac function; Hypertension; Layer-specific speckle tracking.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Echocardiography / methods*
Female
Humans
Hypertension / diagnostic imaging*
Hypertension / epidemiology
Hypertension / physiopathology*
Male
Middle Aged
Stroke Volume / physiology*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / epidemiology
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / physiopathology*