Key result
Protocol details evaluation of RV function in hepatic cirrhosis without reporting clinical results.
Why the study?
Speckle-tracking echocardiographic studies have indicated right ventricular dysfunction occurs before RV failure in hepatic cirrhosis, but its relation to cirrhosis severity using different echo modalities is unclear.
Does right ventricular dysfunction correlate with the severity of hepatic cirrhosis as assessed by speckle-tracking echocardiography?
Observational (n=83)
Does right ventricular dysfunction correlate with the severity of hepatic cirrhosis as assessed by speckle-tracking echocardiography?
No results reported; leaves open any effect of cirrhosis on RV function pending full data.
Background Speckle-tracking echocardiographic (STE) studies have shown the presence of right ventricular (RV) dysfunction before the advent of RV failure in patients with hepatic cirrhosis. We aimed to evaluate RV function in patients with hepatic cirrhosis and assess the relation of RV dysfunction to the severity of hepatic cirrhosis using different echo-Doppler modalities including STE. Patients and methods This study included 49 patients with various degrees of hepatic cirrhosis and 34 healthy normal individuals (NL). Patients were classified into group A (11 patients), group B (17 patients), and group C (21 patients) according to disease severity using the Child–Pugh score. Conventional echo-Doppler parameters of RV function together with tissue Doppler imaging-derived RV strain and speckle-tracking echo-derived right ventricular global strain (STE-RVGST) were obtained.
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A 2017 study conducted an observational in Hepatic cirrhosis (n=83). Hepatic cirrhosis vs. Healthy normal individuals was evaluated on Right ventricular function parameters including speckle-tracking echo-derived right ventricular global strain. The provided abstract describes the study design but does not report the results of the evaluation of right ventricular function in patients with hepatic cirrhosis.
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