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Transthoracic Speckle Tracking Echocardiography for the Quantitative Assessment of Left Ventricular Myocardial Deformation
Published on: October 20, 2016
Radial Strain: Harbinger of Good News
Lilia Oreto1, Maria Chiara Todaro1, Ramagopal Tumuluri2
1Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Introduction:
We report the case of a 58-year-old woman with intracranial hemorrhage associated with stress-induced cardiomyopathy.
Results:
Left ventricular dysfunction was confined to midventricular segments, and manifested with transient anterolateral wall aneurysm. Although wall motion was severely impaired in the mid-segments, an almost preserved global midventricular radial strain forecasted rapid improvement of ventricular function.
Conclusions:
This case highlights how deformation imaging can help in clinical practice to interpret the subtle signs of recovery from left ventricular dysfunction.
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