Key result
Speckle tracking echocardiography using longitudinal strain reproducibly characterizes myocardial deformation in ischemic heart disease.
Why the study?
Speckle tracking echocardiography offers detailed characterization and quantification of myocardial deformation, but its diagnostic possibilities in ischemic heart disease require comprehensive evaluation.
Speckle tracking echocardiography, particularly longitudinal strain, is a reproducible technique for assessing myocardial deformation in ischemic heart disease.
Supports speckle tracking in ischemic heart disease assessment; Level 5 evidence leaves clinical adoption open pending prospective trials.
Speckle tracking echocardiography is a recently developed technique for the characterization and quantification of myocardial deformation. By allowing measurement of the different components of myocardial deformation, it provides information about its physiology of contraction and relaxation. Among all the strain parameters, longitudinal strain is more reproducible than the radial and circumferential strain and rotation. The analysis of numerous sources of scientific literature dedicated to the diagnostic possibilities of this technique for ischemic heart disease is reflected in our work.
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Бабкина et al. (2018) conducted a review in Ischemic heart disease. Speckle tracking echocardiography was evaluated. Speckle tracking echocardiography, particularly longitudinal strain, provides reproducible diagnostic information for characterizing myocardial deformation in ischemic heart disease.
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