Feasibility Value of Right Ventricular Longitudinal Shortening Fraction and the Prognostic Implications in Patients With Heart Transplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Right ventricular longitudinal shortening fraction (RVLSF) is a 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography parameter based on tricuspid annular displacement analysis that could be used to assess right ventricular (RV) systolic function. The value of RVLSF in the assessment of RV systolic function in recipients of heart transplantation (HT) and whether RVLSF can replace strain parameters remains unknown.

Methods and results

A total of 153 adult patients who underwent HT were consecutively enrolled in this prospective longitudinal study. All subjects were examined by conventional transthoracic 2-dimensional echocardiography and 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography to evaluate the RV end-diastolic basal diameter, RV end-diastolic area, fractional area

SUBMITTER: Ji X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11009997 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature