Regional myocardial function in an arrhythmogenic milieu: tissue velocity and strain rate imaging in a patient who had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with recurrent ventricular tachycardia.
We report the use of tissue velocity and strain rate imaging for detecting marked segmental variations and asynchrony in left ventricular systolic and diastolic functions of a 40-year-old patient with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy who died of an intractable ventricular tachycardia. These newer techniques have advantages for identifying heterogeneity in regional myocardial function in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Sengupta
Partho P
PP
Department of Cardiology, G.B. Pant Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Mehta
Vimal
V
Mohan
Jagdish C
JC
Arora
Ramesh
R
Khandheria
Bijoy K
BK
D000328:Adult; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left