Do global and regional myocardial strains measured by speckle tracking echocardiography differ among patients with HFpEF, hypertension, and age-matched controls?
Speckle tracking echocardiography reveals progressively impaired global and regional myocardial strain from normal subjects to hypertension to HFpEF, potentially aiding early detection of LV deformation.
In the speckle tracking echocardiography, impaired peak global strain and homogeneously reduced regional strain was observed in HFpEF patients compared to the hypertension patients and normal subjects in decreasing order. This can provide early information on the initiation of LV deformation of HFpEF in patients with hypertension or normal subjects.
Kim et al. (Tue,) studied this question.