“Hot Septum” Sign of Constrictive Pericarditis

In patients with constrictive pericarditis, a characteristic reduction in the regional longitudinal strain seen in the areas of the left ventricular free wall and relative sparing of the septal longitudinal strain values create an easily recognizable bullseye plot pattern that can be described as “h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Edgar Argulian, MD MPH, Dan G. Halpern, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-02-01
Series:JACC: Case Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666084919306795