Serial speckle tracking and successful post-STEMI percutaneous coronary intervention: incremental value versus visual wall motion analysis.
The present clinical case shows that assessment of longitudinal strain in the coronary care unit using speckle tracking echocardiography can help to quantify myocardial damage in the context of acute coronary syndromes and detect changes otherwise not visible with semi-quantitative evaluation of wall motion.
Lomoriello
Vincenzo Schiano
VS
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy.
Galderisi
Maurizio
M
Rapacciuolo
Antonio
A
Santoro
Alessandro
A
Maresca
Gennaro
G
Ferrara
Liberato Aldo
LA
Piscione
Federico
F
de Simone
Giovanni
G
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