Is left atrial strain a useful parameter for evaluating left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients with heart failure and sinus rhythm?
LA strain is a potentially useful imaging parameter for evaluating diastolic dysfunction in heart failure patients in sinus rhythm.
The findings of this analysis suggest that LA strain could be a useful parameter in the evaluation of DD in patients with heart failure and sinus rhythm, irrespective of LVEF.
Frydas et al. (Thu,) studied this question.