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21.06.2022 | Commentary
Left atrial strain by three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography
The long road to establishment for a nouveau arrive
verfasst von:
Bas M. van Dalen, Yaar S. Aga, Heleen B. van der Zwaan
Erschienen in:
The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
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Ausgabe 8/2022
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Excerpt
Various newer echocardiographic techniques have been developed over the last decades, some found their way into everyday clinical practice. These techniques include for example three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography and speckle tracking echocardiography (STE). The first publication on 3D echocardiography dates back to 1974 [
1]. An utopian vision of 3D echocardiographic imaging of a beating heart was proposed by various research groups. These groups progressed with experimental work in the following decades to realize this goal. Nowadays, there are over 10.000 publications on 3D echocardiography cited in PubMed and several applications of this technique, such as left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction measurements or mitral valve assessment, turned out to be an indispensable part of daily cardiologic practice. …