Longitudinal Strain: "Think Globally, Track Locally"

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¹ Maastricht University Medical Center, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Université de Bordeaux, LIRYC L'Institut de Rythmologie et Modélisation Cardiaque, Bordeaux, France. Electronic address: joost.lumens@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
² Maastricht University Medical Center, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

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Joost Lumens et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Dec.

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. 2015 Dec;8(12):1360-1363.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.08.014.

¹ Maastricht University Medical Center, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Université de Bordeaux, LIRYC L'Institut de Rythmologie et Modélisation Cardiaque, Bordeaux, France. Electronic address: joost.lumens@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
² Maastricht University Medical Center, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

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Keywords: GLS; echocardiography; risk stratification; speckle tracking; systolic function.

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