Myocardial Mechanics: Understanding and Applying Three-dimensional Speckle Tracking Echocardiography in Clinical Practice

Overview

Journal Echocardiography

Specialties Cardiology & Vascular Diseases
Radiology

Date 2012 May 18

PMID 22591237

Citations 55

Authors

Khawaja Afzal Ammar

Timothy E Paterick

Bijoy K Khandheria

M Fuad Jan

Christopher Kramer

Matt M Umland

Alix J Tercius

Lisa Baratta

A Jamil Tajik

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Abstract

Speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) is an emerging tool to characterize and quantify myocardial segmental and rotational mechanics. This literature review is aimed at clinical and academic cardiologists to provide: (1) a conceptual framework of STE to initiate understanding of myocardial mechanics; (2) evidence that three-dimensional (3D) STE overcomes the problems of time-consuming data acquisition and postprocessing seen with two-dimensional STE; and (3) illustrative clinical cases with analysis of myocardial mechanics via 3D STE to show the incremental value of strain in clinical decision making.

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