Speckle tracking echocardiography in childhood myocarditis: Spontaneous reversal of severe left ventricular rotational abnormalities during follow-up

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Network Heart Failure, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, grant no. 01GI0205. The authors are indebted to Mike T. John and Wolfgang Micheelis for the kind permission to use the reference data of the OHIP-G questionnaire [12] for validation purposes. The authors of this manuscript have certified that they comply with the Principles of Ethical Publishing in the International Journal of Cardiology (Shewan and Coats 2010;144:1–2). They declare no conflict of interest.