Ultrasonographic vascular mechanics: feasibility, usefulness, and clinical applications

  • Teixeira, Rogério Paiva Cardoso
Publication date
March 2017

Abstract

Tese de doutoramento em Ciências da Saúde, na especialidade de Medicina, apresentada à Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de CoimbraThe development of accurate non-invasive methods of early diagnosis of vascular degenerative changes is of considerable clinical interest, given that cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide and large artery damage is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease. Ultrasound delivers dynamic images of the heart and central arteries. Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) is a semi automated analysis based on frame-by-frame tracking of tiny echo-dense speckles within the myocardium, from which deformation variables such as strain, strain rate, velocity and displa...

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