Stress and strain: double trouble or useful tool?
Cardiac deformation imaging is being used more and more routinely in resting echocardiography. The technique can also be applied to stress studies, and may provide additional information to that obtained by standard analysis alone. This review explores its present role, limitations, and potential uses. Although currently not widely used in stress studies, deformation imaging has the capability to provide clinically useful information.
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Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of South Manchester, Wythenshawe, Manchester M23 9LT, UK. rachel.argyle@nhs.net
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D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D025401:Echocardiography, Stress / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted