ESC 365 - Easy to measure, hard to understand: a review of left ventricular strain in echocardiography

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Easy to measure, hard to understand: a review of left ventricular strain in echocardiography

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: Tissue Doppler, Speckle Tracking and Strain Imaging

Session type: Symposium

Date: 26 August 2018

Time: 08:30 - 10:00

Session

5 presentations in this session

Circumferential strain is the main contributor to left ventricular function.

Speaker: Doctor E. Remme (Oslo, NO)

Longitudinal motion of the atrioventricular plane is the main contributor to left ventricular function.

Speaker: Doctor M. Carlsson (Bethesda, US)

Detection of cardiotoxicity by strain echocardiography

Speaker: Professor S. Mulvagh (Halifax, CA)

Strain analyses to identify amyloidosis and myocarditis.

Speaker: Professor T. Marwick (Melbourne, AU)

Three-dimensional strain: theoretically attractive, but are there demonstrable clinical advantages?

Speaker: Professor J. Gorcsan (St Louis, US)

5 speakers from this session

Doctor Espen Remme

Oslo University Hospital, Institute for Surgical Research, Oslo (Norway)

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Doctor Marcus Carlsson

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda (United States of America)

7 presentations

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Professor Sharon Mulvagh

Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada)

3 presentations

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Professor Thomas H Marwick

Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne (Australia)

29 presentations

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Professor John Gorcsan

Washington University, St Louis (United States of America)

7 presentations

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