Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 151-157 , February 2007

Strain Rate Imaging Differentiates Hypertensive Cardiac Hypertrophy from Physiologic Cardiac Hypertrophy (Athlete’s Heart)

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 Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New York, New York.

PII: S0894-7317(06)00820-0

doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.08.006

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 151-157 , February 2007

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