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Does comprehensive functional assessment of the right-sided heart using speckle tracking strain predict outcomes in patients with pulmonary hypertension?
Does comprehensive functional assessment of the right-sided heart using speckle tracking strain predict outcomes in patients with pulmonary hypertension?
Right atrial strain assessed by speckle tracking echocardiography provides significant incremental prognostic value beyond clinical variables and right ventricular strain in patients with pulmonary hypertension.
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RA strain may aid prognostication in pulmonary hypertension; supports incremental value but leaves open prospective validation.
Fukuda et al. (2016) studied this question.
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