Figure 4From: Tissue Doppler, Strain and Strain Rate in ischemic heart disease “How I do it” Curved M-modes of a patient with acute myocardial infarction. Left panel: in the acute phase, a delayed onset of systolic shortening with pathologic post-systolic shortening (PSS) can be noted in the apical segment (arrow). Middle and left panel: One day and 2 weeks after the acute coronary intervention the regional function has normalized.Back to article page