Does novel speckle-tracking echocardiography improve risk stratification beyond baseline thyroid hormone in patients with asymptomatic subclinical hypothyroidism?
Novel speckle-tracking echocardiography may offer prognostic value for assessing heart failure and atrial fibrillation risk in patients with asymptomatic subclinical hypothyroidism.
Hypothyroidism, even when asymptomatic, may widely influence subclinical atrio-ventricular mechanical functions that may lead to higher heart failure and atrial fibrillation risk. We proposed the potential usefulness and prognostic utilization of myocardial strains in such population.
Huang et al. (Mon,) studied this question.