LA Strain When Ejection Fraction Is Preserved: A New Measure of Diastolic Function?

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¹ Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: ssolomon@rics.bwh.harvard.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Cardiology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Scott D Solomon et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2017 Jul.

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. 2017 Jul;10(7):744-746.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2016.09.018. Epub 2016 Dec 21.

¹ Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: ssolomon@rics.bwh.harvard.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Cardiology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Keywords: diastolic dysfunction; echocardiographic speckle tracking; left atrium; strain imaging.

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LA Strain for Categorization of LV Diastolic Dysfunction.
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