Improvement in Strain Concordance between Two Major Vendors after the Strain Standardization Initiative - Yang, Hong; Marwick, Thomas H.; Fukuda, Nobuaki; Oe, Hiroki; Saito, Makoto; Thomas, James D.; Negishi, Kazuaki (Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 2015)
Keywords: Cardiology - standards; Cardiovascular; Concordance; EACVI-ASE strain standardization; Echocardiography - standards; Ejection fraction; Elastic Modulus; Elasticity Imaging Techniques - standards; Female; Humans; Internationality; Male; Middle Aged; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Quality Improvement - standards; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Software - standards; Software Validation; Strain; Stroke Volume; Vendor difference; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - diagnostic imaging; STE; EACVI-ASE strain standardization; ICC; LVEF; LVESV; LV; IQR; Strain; GLS; ASE; CV; Concordance; LVEDV; Vendor difference; Ejection fraction; LOA; Left ventricular; Global longitudinal strain; Coefficient of variation; Speckle-tracking echocardiography; Left ventricular ejection fraction; Left ventricular end-systolic volume; Limits of agreement; Intraclass correlation coefficient; Interquartile range; American Society of Echocardiography; Left ventricular end-diastolic volume