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European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access originally published online on September 17, 2008
European Journal of Echocardiography 2009 10(1):46-47; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen241
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Let's twist

Marcel L. Geleijnse* and Bas M. van Dalen

Department of Cardiac Imaging, Erasmus Medical Center, Thoraxcenter Room Ba304, ‘s-Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Received 11 August 2008; accepted after revision 25 August 2008; online publish-ahead-of-print 17 September 2008.

* Corresponding author. Tel: +31 10 703 35 33; fax: +31 10 703 54 98. E-mail address: m.geleijnse@erasmusmc.nl

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In the 16th century, Leonardo DaVinci already described the rotational motion of the left ventricle (LV)1,2 and in 1669, Richard Lower observed that myocardial contraction could be compared with ‘the wringing of a linen cloth to squeeze out the water’.3 Three centuries later, the use of radiopaque markers in cineradiographic studies made it possible to measure this wringing motion in the human heart, as was shown by Ian McDonald and Neil Ingels.4,5 The mechanistic basis for this wringing motion or twist lies in the complex spiral architecture of the LV as revealed by the anatomical studies of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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