title: [Diagnostic Possibilities of Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography].
abstract: The review is devoted to merits and demerits of a new method of assessment of condition of the heart - speckle-tracking echocardiography. Speckle-tracking echocardiography is a perspective method allowing to register disorders of both global and regional contractile motion.
authors.affiliation: Central State Medical Academy, President Management Department RF, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: P I
authors.initials: PI
authors.lastname: Medvedev
authors.affiliation: Central State Medical Academy, President Management Department RF, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: M N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Alekhin
authors.affiliation: Central State Medical Academy, President Management Department RF, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Sidorenko
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis*