title: Regional myocardial function in an arrhythmogenic milieu: tissue velocity and strain rate imaging in a patient who had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with recurrent ventricular tachycardia.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, G.B. Pant Hospital, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Partho P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Sengupta
authors.forename: Vimal
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.forename: Jagdish C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Mohan
authors.forename: Ramesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arora
authors.forename: Bijoy K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Khandheria
mesh_terms: 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