title: Longitudinal strain bull's eye plot patterns in patients with cardiomyopathy and concentric left ventricular hypertrophy.
abstract: Despite substantial advances in the imaging techniques and pathophysiological understanding over the last decades, identification of the underlying causes of left ventricular hypertrophy by means of echocardiographic examination remains a challenge in current clinical practice. The longitudinal strain bull's eye plot derived from 2D speckle tracking imaging offers an intuitive visual overview of the global and regional left ventricular myocardial function in a single diagram. The bull's eye mapping is clinically feasible and the plot patterns could provide clues to the etiology of cardiomyopathies. The present review summarizes the longitudinal strain, bull's eye plot features in patients with various cardiomyopathies and concentric left ventricular hypertrophy and the bull's eye plot features might serve as one of the cardiac workup steps on evaluating patients with left ventricular hypertrophy.
authors.affiliation: Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, Würzburg, Germany.|Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, Würzburg, Germany.|Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, Würzburg, Germany.|Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nordbeck
authors.affiliation: Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, Würzburg, Germany.|Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ertl
authors.affiliation: Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, Würzburg, Germany.|Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Störk
authors.affiliation: Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, Würzburg, Germany. f.weidemann@katharinen-hospital.de.|Innere Klinik II, Medical Clinic II, Katharinen-Hospital, Obere Husemannstraße 2, 59423, Unna, Germany. f.weidemann@katharinen-hospital.de.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Weidemann
mesh_terms: D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Bull’s eye plot; Cardiomyopathy; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Speckle tracking imaging