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Assessment of wall motion by two-dimensional echocardiography

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Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 113))

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One common result of ischemia or infarction in patients with coronary artery disease is the development of segmental wall motion abnormalities of the left ventricle. In the desire to quantitate such abnormalities multiple computer based models for wall motion quantitation have been developed.

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© 1991 Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Kisslo, J., Sheikh, K.H. (1991). Assessment of wall motion by two-dimensional echocardiography. In: Iliceto, S., Rizzon, P., Roelandt, J.R.T.C. (eds) Ultrasound in Coronary Artery Disease. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 113. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0611-2_2

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