title: Fetal postsystolic shortening assessment by myocardial deformation imaging: sign of cardiac dysfunction?
authors.affiliation: From the Children's Heart Center, Department of Pediatrics (L.K.) and Medical Ultrasound Imaging Center, Department of Radiology (C.L.d.K.), Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; and Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Dana-Dwek Children's Hospital, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (L.K.). livia.kapusta@radboudumc.nl.
authors.forename: Livia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kapusta
authors.affiliation: From the Children's Heart Center, Department of Pediatrics (L.K.) and Medical Ultrasound Imaging Center, Department of Radiology (C.L.d.K.), Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; and Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Dana-Dwek Children's Hospital, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (L.K.).
authors.forename: Chris L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: de Korte
mesh_terms: D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005317:Fetal Growth Retardation / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005318:Fetal Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000502:physiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal / Q000379:methods*; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Editorials; echocardiography; fetal heart; ventricular remodeling