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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on July 10, 2006
European Heart Journal 2006 27(15):1771-1772; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl144
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2006. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Detection of subclinical LV dysfunction by tissue Doppler imaging

Frank Weidemann* and Joerg M. Strotmann

Department of Internal Medicine I, Center of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Wuerzburg, Germany

* Corresponding author. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Herz- und Kreislaufzentrum der Universität Wuerzburg, Josef-Schneider Str. 2, D20, 97080 Wuerzburg, Germany. Tel: +49 931 2010; fax: +49 931 20136291. E-mail address: weidemann_f@medizin.uni-wuerzburg.de

This editorial refers to ‘Tissue Doppler imaging predicts left ventricular dysfunction and mortality in a murine model of cardiac injury’{dagger} by T.G. Neilan et al., on page 1868

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Echocardiography is a well-established clinical tool for the assessment of myocardial function. However, in subclinical diseases, the routinely used echocardiographic parameters such as left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) and fractional shortening are not sensitive enough to detect myocardial dysfunction. We have learned over the past years that other echocardiographic techniques such as tissue Doppler imaging might be able to describe changes in myocardial performance that go beyond the limitations . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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