ArticleJournal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography2013
Feasibility and reproducibility of systolic right ventricular strain measurement by speckle-tracking echocardiography in premature infants.
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Exploring Right vEntricular Function Applicability in a Prediction mOdel to Identify pReterm infanTs With Early BronchoPulmonary Dysplasia (REPORT - BPD Study): a Mixed Methods Observational Cohort Feasibility Study
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Normal ranges of right ventricular systolic and diastolic strain measures in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography · 2014Pooled it
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- Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography in Right Ventricular Function of Clinically Well Patients with Heart Transplantation.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Cardiac Performance in the First Year of Age Among Preterm Infants Fed Maternal Breast Milk.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Prognostic biomarkers in pediatric pulmonary arterial hypertension.Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy · 2021Review
- Influence of chest conformation on myocardial strain parameters in healthy subjects with mitral valve prolapse.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2021Article
- Tripartite Assessment of Right Ventricular Systolic Function in Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn.Pediatric cardiology · 2020Article
- Speckle tracking echocardiographically-based analysis of ventricular strain in children: an intervendor comparison.Cardiovascular ultrasound · 2020Article
- Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: A Review.Pediatric allergy, immunology, and pulmonology · 2019Review
- Early prediction of spontaneous Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) closure and PDA-associated outcomes: a prospective cohort investigation.BMC pediatrics · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundRight ventricular (RV) systolic function is an important prognostic determinant of cardiopulmonary pathologies in premature infants. Measurements of dominant RV longitudinal deformation are likely to provide a sensitive measure of RV function. An approach for image acquisition and postacquisition processing is needed for reliable and reproducible measurements of myocardial deformation by two-dimensional (2D) speckle-tracking echocardiography. The aims of this study were to determine the feasibility and reproducibility of 2D speckle-tracking echocardiographic measurement of RV peak global longitudinal strain (pGLS) and peak global longitudinal strain rate in premature infants and to establish methods for acquiring and analyzing strain.
methodsThe study was designed in two phases: (1) a training phase to develop methods of image acquisition and postprocessing in a cohort of 30 premature infants (born at 28 ± 1 weeks) and (2) a study phase to prospectively test in a separate cohort of 50 premature infants (born at 27 ± 1 weeks) if the methods improved the feasibility and reproducibility of RV pGLS and peak global longitudinal strain rate measurements to a clinically significant level, assessed using Bland-Altman analysis (bias, limits of agreement, coefficient of variation, and intraclass correlation coefficient).
resultsStrain imaging was feasible from 84% of the acquisitions using the methods developed for optimal speckle brightness and frame rate for RV-focused image acquisition. There was high intraobserver (bias, 3%; 95% limits of agreement, -1.6 to +1.6; coefficient of variation, 2.7%; intraclass correlation coefficient, 0.97; P = .02) and interobserver (bias, 7%; 95% limits of agreement, -4.8 to +4.73; coefficient of variation, 3.9%; intraclass correlation coefficient, 0.93; P < .05) reproducibility, with excellent linear correlation between the two pGLS measurements (r = 0.97 [P < .01] and r = 0.93 [P < .05], respectively).
conclusionsThis study demonstrates high clinical feasibility and reproducibility of RV pGLS and RV peak global longitudinal strain rate measurements by 2D speckle-tracking echocardiography in premature infants and offers methods for image acquisition and data analysis for systolic strain imaging that can provide a reliable assessment of global RV function.
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