ANATOLIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY, cilt.10, sa.3, ss.247-252, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
Objective: Standard echocardiographic methods reflect chamber dynamics and do not provide a direct measure of myocardial fiber shortening. Therefore we evaluated longitudinal left ventricular myocardial function by tissue Doppler echocardiography; strain (S), strain rate (SR), tissue Doppler velocity (TDV) in newly diagnosed mild to moderate hypertensive patients.