Speckle tracking strain in left ventricular ‘hypertrophy’ One of the best uses of strain imaging is when the patient has thick left ventricular (LV) walls, or so called left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH).…
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Measuring left ventricular size and wall thickness is a standard part of the routine echo examination. There are normative values for LV wall thickness, and the trainee sonographer is taught basic pattern-recognition…