Population
87 healthy adults
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Apical strain gradients yielding higher regional EF may refine LV assessment; leaves open validation in disease states.
MR myocardial tagging demonstrates that the regional contribution of the LV wall to blood ejection is highly variable and not fully characterized by wall thickening alone.
Bogaert et al. (2001) studied this question.
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