Risk Stratification in ICD Candidates Beyond Ejection Fraction: Potential Role of Myocardial Deformation Imaging?

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¹ Department of Cardiology, Clinical Hospital Centre Zemun, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. Electronic address: neskovic@hotmail.com.
² Department of Cardiology, Clinical Hospital Centre Zemun, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.

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Aleksandar N Neskovic et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 Jan.

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. 2020 Jan;13(1 Pt 1):10-11.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2019.02.009. Epub 2019 Apr 17.

¹ Department of Cardiology, Clinical Hospital Centre Zemun, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. Electronic address: neskovic@hotmail.com.
² Department of Cardiology, Clinical Hospital Centre Zemun, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.

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Keywords: echocardiography; implantable cardioverter-defibrillator; remote monitoring; speckle-tracking; ventricular tachycardia.

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