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Effect of strain on endocardial, midwall and epicardial fractional shortening (normal wall thickness). Note longitudinal and midwall strains are the same and midwall fractional shortening is identical to circumferential strain. As strain increases, endocardial fractional shortening rises to a greater extent than epicardial fractional shortening (see Table 1 for clinical trial results)
