title: Left ventricular global systolic function assessment by echocardiography.
abstract: The left ventricle, with its thickened myocardial walls, unlike the right ventricle has no measurable geometric shape. It has a conical apex and its function quantification, needs intensive, 2D, 3D and M mode transesophageal echocardiography, which is described in this review.
authors.affiliation: Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiac Anaesthesia, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman.
authors.forename: Suresh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chengode
mesh_terms: D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*