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Does the assessment of LV GLS with speckle-tracking echocardiography predict long-term survival in patients with chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy?
Does the assessment of LV GLS with speckle-tracking echocardiography predict long-term survival in patients with chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy?
LV global longitudinal strain assessed via speckle-tracking echocardiography serves as a significant prognostic marker for long-term survival in patients with chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy.
May support GLS for risk stratification in chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy; leaves open incremental value and need for prospective validation.
The assessment of LV GLS with speckle-tracking echocardiography is significantly related to long-term outcome in patients with chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy.
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Bertini et al. (2012) studied this question.