It does identify fixed wall motion abnormalities that suggest previous myocardial infarction.
9 It also provides information on ventricular dysfunction and valvular abnormalities, as well as on fixed wall motion abnormalities that suggest previous myocardial infarction.
Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease cannot be detected by echocardiography, although indirect signs such as left ventricular wall motion abnormalities can suggest its presence.
Pretransplant chest radiograph abnormalities suggesting mycobacterial infections should be aggressively evaluated in these immunocompromised hosts.
Adjustment for exercise-induced, though not resting, segmental wall motion abnormalities did attenuate the association modestly, suggesting that the prognostic importance of this ECG marker may act in part through segmental, but not global, dysfunction in patients with CAD.
The presence of microvascular failure and regional wall motion abnormalities, which are frequently observed in positive-troponin patients, also suggest ventricular wall strain and cardiac cell necrosis.
The results of a recent analysis of pooled data suggest that TCM and neurogenic stunned myocardium, regardless of whether it has regional wall motion abnormalities and elevation of cardiac enzyme levels, are likely to have common underlying mechanisms and pathological processes inducing cardiomyopathy [ 33].
Because interim myocardial infarction (as a surrogate measure for progression of CAD) and exercise-induced wall motion abnormalities also did not attenuate the strength of the association between diabetes and heart failure, our data suggest that diabetes is a risk factor for heart failure, independent of CAD risk factors, CAD progression, and the baseline presence of myocardial ischemia.
"motion abnormalities" -> please correct with "wall motion abnormalities" Table 4: according to the current available data on deformation analysis applied to the athlete's heart, I suggest to describe LV GLS at rest as "normal" and not "normal or slightly reduced".
The accurate assessment of the extent and severity of stress-induced wall motion abnormalities is often difficult, and wall motion abnormalities may be missed by visual inspection of wall motion from the standard two-dimensional views.
