Noninvasive monitoring of cardiac function in a chronic ischemic heart failure model in the rat: assessment with tissue Doppler and non-Doppler 2D strain echocardiography.

Most of all there was a highly significant (p < 0.0001) decrease of LVEF (Figure 2 ), systolic anterior velocity (Figure 3 and 4 ) as well as an increase of LVEDD. 2-D-strain decreased particularly in the anteroseptal, anterior and lateral areas but not at all in the inferior segment (Figure 5 and 6 ).

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