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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on February 19, 2009
European Heart Journal 2009 30(6):642-644; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehp067
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2009. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Echocardiographic epidemiology—an emerging tool for early diagnosis, studying pathophysiology, predicting prognosis, and testing treatments

Alan G. Fraser*

Wales Heart Research Institute, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK

* Corresponding author. Tel: +44 29 2074 3489, Fax: +44 29 2074 3500, Email: fraserag@cf.ac.uk

This editorial refers to ‘Tissue Doppler echocardiography in persons with hypertension, diabetes, or ischaemic heart disease: the Copenhagen City Heart Study’{dagger}, by R. Mogelvang et al., on page 731

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Advances in echocardiography mean that it is now possible to measure myocardial function accurately and non-invasively. Paradoxically, objective quantification of myocardial motion, contraction, and relaxation in each segment of the left ventricle actually makes it more difficult to define normality and disease in the individual patient, but the technique raises intriguing possibilities in population studies for diagnosing early heart muscle disease and testing new approaches to treatment.

The catalyst to this approach was the development of tissue Doppler echocardiography to measure the velocity of myocardial motion, and then the processing of digitally stored velocity data to obtain measurements of regional myocardial deformation (strain and strain rate). Machines do not apply the Doppler equation when processing these signals, and so an alternative and more accurate term that encompasses all available methods is myocardial velocity imaging.

Mogelvang et al. have reported their findings from performing echocardiography in >1000 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Tissue Doppler echocardiography in persons with hypertension, diabetes, or ischaemic heart disease: the Copenhagen City Heart Study
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