TY  - JOUR
A1  - Liu, Dan
A1  - Hu, Kai
A1  - Nordbeck, Peter
A1  - Ertl, Georg
A1  - Störk, Stefan
A1  - Weidemann, Frank
T1  - Longitudinal strain bull's eye plot patterns in patients with cardiomyopathy and concentric left ventricular hypertrophy
JF  - European Journal of Medical Research
N2  - Despite substantial advances in the imaging techniques and pathophysiological understanding over the last decades, identification of the underlying causes of left ventricular hypertrophy by means of echocardiographic examination remains a challenge in current clinical practice. The longitudinal strain bull’s eye plot derived from 2D speckle tracking imaging offers an intuitive visual overview of the global and regional left ventricular myocardial function in a single diagram. The bull’s eye mapping is clinically feasible and the plot patterns could provide clues to the etiology of cardiomyopathies. The present review summarizes the longitudinal strain, bull’s eye plot features in patients with various cardiomyopathies and concentric left ventricular hypertrophy and the bull’s eye plot features might serve as one of the cardiac workup steps on evaluating patients with left ventricular hypertrophy.
KW  - speckle tracking imaging
KW  - bull’s eye plot
KW  - cardiomyopathy
KW  - left ventricular hypertrophy
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-146373
VL  - 21
IS  - 21
ER  -