Discussion: speckle tracking in mitral regurgitation

Chemotherapy-associated cardiomyopathy is a severe and quite common complication in oncology patients and is actually the leading cause of death in cancer survivors. Any technology, like speckle tracking, that can help us detect problems early and thus maybe saving patients should be used willingly - let us show you how.

Here you will learn how left ventricular hypertrophy develops over time and how to recognize the stages.

Although it's not in the guidelines yet, speckle tracking might be used for the timing of mitral valve surgery - let us make the case for it in this video.

In this video, we show you step by step how you can measure left atrial strain, even if your machine does not have the program for atrial speckle tracking.