%0 Journal Article %T Use of strain, strain rate, tissue velocity imaging, and endothelial function for early detection of cardiovascular involvement in patients with beta-thalassemia %A Abhinav Gupta %A Aditya Kapoor %A Archana Sinha %A Naveen Garg %A Pravin Goel %A Roopali Khanna %A Satyendra Tewari %A Shridhar Kashyap %A Shubha Phadke %A Sudeep Kumar %J Archive of "Annals of Pediatric Cardiology". %D 2017 %R 10.4103/apc.APC_132_16 %X Global ventricular function often remains normal in patients with beta-thalassemia major (¦Â-TM) until late. Tissue Doppler and strain imaging may be useful to assess regional myocardial function abnormalities in these patients %K Echocardiography %K strain %K strain rate %K thalassemia %K tissue Doppler %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5431028/