Strain Echocardiography: The New Gold Standard for Imaging Ventricular Function?

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¹ Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Cardiometabolic Trials, Baim Institute for Clinical Research, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: jjanuzzi@partners.org.
² Cardiology Division, University of Minnesota Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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James L Januzzi Jr et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017.

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. 2017 Aug 22;70(8):955-957.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.07.717.

¹ Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Cardiometabolic Trials, Baim Institute for Clinical Research, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: jjanuzzi@partners.org.
² Cardiology Division, University of Minnesota Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Keywords: echocardiography; heart failure; imaging; strain.

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