Differentiation of infarcted, ischemic, and non-ischemic LV myocardium using post-systolic strain index assessed by resting two-dimensional speckle tracking transthoracic echocardiography

Int J Cardiol. 2016 Sep 15:219:308-11. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.06.007. Epub 2016 Jun 11.

Authors

Koya Ozawa¹, Nobusada Funabashi², Takeshi Nishi¹, Masayuki Takahara¹, Yoshihide Fujimoto¹, Tomoko Kamata¹, Yoshio Kobayashi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 27344130
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.06.007

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography / methods*
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardial Infarction / diagnostic imaging*
Myocardial Infarction / physiopathology
Myocardial Ischemia / diagnostic imaging*
Myocardial Ischemia / physiopathology
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / physiopathology