Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2016 May 17;31:1499–1508. doi: 10.1007/s00467-016-3362-0

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© The Author(s) 2016

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

PMC Copyright notice

Fig. 1 — Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) for left ventricular (LV) longitudinal strain (LS) in a healthy control subject (a) and a child with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) (b). The mean LS (white dotted line) is the mean of the six segments of the myocardium of the left ventricle, (e.g. yellow basal septum, light blue mid septum, green apical septum, red basal lateral, dark blue mid lateral, purple apical lateral). The mean LS can be seen to be significantly lower in the child with ESRD (b) than in the healthy control subject (a)