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Myocardial Strain Imaging in Resistant Hypertension.

Reem AlsharariDavid OxboroughGregory Y H LipAlena Shantsila
Published in: Current hypertension reports (2021)
It is well-recognized that conventional transthoracic echocardiography is a useful analytic imaging modality to evaluate hypertension-mediated organ damage (HMOD) and in a resistant hypertensive population. More recently two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) has been utilized to provide further risk assessment to this population. Recent data has shown that STE is a new promising echocardiographic marker to evaluate early stage LV dysfunction and myocardial fibrosis over conventional 2D parameters in patients with cardiovascular diseases.
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