Commentary - Asian Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (2021) Volume 11, Issue 74

Widespread myocardial dysfunction in COVID-19 patients, detected by myocardial strain imaging using 2-D speckle-tracking echocardiography.

Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2-D STE) is a quantitative method to assess global and regional myocardial function and has been proved to be a sensitive tool to detect subclinical cardiac dysfunction in pathological conditions as hypertension, diabetes and coronary artery disease [1,2]. By using this method, Li et al. evaluated the cardiac function in patients with COVID-19. Author(s): Rui Li, Hong Wang, Fei Ma, Guang-Lin Cui, Li-Yuan Peng, Chen-Ze Li, He-Song Zeng, Ali J Marian, Dao-Wen Wang

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