Echocardiographic Techniques of Deformation Imaging in the Evaluation of Maternal Cardiovascular System in Patients with Complicated Pregnancies

Figure 6

Three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography. The software package calculates simultaneously the longitudinal (a), the circumferential (b), and the radial (c) components of myocardial deformation, plus a composite parameter (area strain) (d).

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