Layer-specific strain in dipyridamole stress echo: A new tool for the diagnosis of microvascular angina.

Giulia Elena MandoliMatteo CameliSimona MinardiFelice CrudeleStefano LunghettiSergio Mondillo

Published in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2018)

Global circumferential strain can be a new valuable added tool in the echocardiographic diagnosis of microvascular disease. Endocardial GLS is the best indicator of an altered wall deformation in the presence of macrovascular ischemia.

Keyphrases

coronary artery disease
magnetic resonance
pulmonary hypertension
left ventricular
percutaneous coronary intervention
mitral valve
left atrial
computed tomography
heart failure
diffusion weighted imaging
heat stress