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January 1, 2016Open Access

Myocardial Strain and Strain Rate in Kawasaki Disease: Range, Recovery, and Relationship to Systemic Inflammation/Coronary Artery Dilation

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Population

41 patients with Kawasaki Disease

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

convalescent period

Authors

BFBenjamin S. FrankPediatric CardiologyJDJesse DavidsonUniversity of Colorado Denver

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Overview

Transient strain depression in acute KD may reflect inflammation; hypothesis-generating for strain monitoring, needs prospective validation.

Structured PICO

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Population
41 patients with Kawasaki Disease
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Outcome
Myocardial strain and strain rate measured by velocity vector imaging from pre-treatment and convalescent echocardiogramssurrogate

In Kawasaki Disease, depressed acute phase myocardial strain improves by the convalescent period and is associated with systemic inflammation rather than coronary artery dilation.

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Frank et al. (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a914d749ea92d4f71f075e6https://doi.org/10.4172/2155-9880.1000432
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