Why the study?
Atrial cardiomyopathy causes structural and functional changes predisposing to atrial fibrillation and stroke, warranting a summary of left atrial strain imaging by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography.
Left atrial strain imaging using 2D-STE provides a non-invasive, widely available method to assess atrial cardiomyopathy, guiding management in atrial fibrillation, stroke risk, and heart failure.
Atrial cardiomyopathy represents a process of structural and functional changes affecting the atria and leading eventually to clinical manifestation of atrial fibrillation and risk of stroke. Multimodality imaging provides a comprehensive evaluation of atrial remodeling and plays a crucial role in the decision-making process in treatment strategy. This paper summarizes the current state of knowledge on the topic of left atrial strain imaging using two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2D-STE). We focus on our recently published data on left atrial remodeling assessed by 2D-STE versus high-density voltage mapping in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF).
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Marincheva et al. (2022) conducted a review in Atrial fibrillation. Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) was evaluated.
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