ReviewClinical cardiology2015
Speckle Tracking Echocardiography of the Right Atrium: The Neglected Chamber.
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- Prognostic value of right atrial strain in patients with chronic heart failure.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Article
- Atrial Right-to-Left Shunting After Tetralogy of Fallot Repair Is Associated With Improved Atrial Function and Shorter Hospital Length of Stay: An Echocardiographic Cohort Study.Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography · 2025Article
- Feasibility and reproducibility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance-feature tracking for quantitative right atrial function in dilated cardiomyopathy patients.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Prognostic value of right atrial strain in systemic sclerosis based on tissue tracking analysis using cine cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: a retrospective observational study.Heart and vessels · 2024Observational
- Application prospect of speckle tracking echocardiography in pacemaker implantation.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Review
- Evaluation of right atrial function by two-dimensional echocardiography and strain imaging in patients with RCA CTO recanalization.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2023Article
- Advanced imaging of fetal cardiac function.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Review
- Prognostic value of right atrial strain derived from cardiovascular magnetic resonance in non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy.Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance · 2022Article
- Right atrial function early after tetralogy of Fallot repair.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2022Article
- Global longitudinal strain assessment of cardiac function and extravascular lung water formation after diving using semi-closed circuit rebreather.European journal of applied physiology · 2022Observational
- Right Atrial Mechanics on Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography: Clinical Implications in Children.Journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2022Article
- Assessment of atria function after percutaneous closure of atrial septal defect using 2D speckle tracking echocardiography.Journal of echocardiography · 2022Article
- Atrial performance in healthy subjects following high altitude exposure at 4100 m: 2D speckle-tracking strain analysis.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2021Article
- Assessment of right atrial dyssynchrony by 2D speckle-tracking in healthy young men following high altitude exposure at 4100 m.PloS one · 2021Article
- An Unusual Etiology for a 37-Year-Old Man With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation and Termination Pause.JACC. Case reports · 2021Article
- Right atrial function assessed by volume-derived values and speckle tracking echocardiography in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2020Article
- Preserved right ventricular function but increased right atrial contractile demand in altitude-induced pulmonary hypertension.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2020Article
- Atrial Function and Its Role in the Non-invasive Evaluation of Diastolic Function in Congenital Heart Disease.Pediatric cardiology · 2020Review
- The right atrium in acromegaly-a three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiographic analysis from the MAGYAR-Path Study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2020Article
- Evolution of strain and strain rate values throughout gestation in healthy fetuses.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2020Observational
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Abstract
The right atrium (RA) plays a pivotal role in electromechanical and endocrine regulation of the heart. Its peculiar anatomical features and phasic mechanical function make it distinct from ventricles. Various invasive and noninvasive techniques have been used to elucidate RA structure and function. Of these modalities, echocardiography has distinct advantages over others. Several conventional measures of RA function through echocardiography have been described in the literature, but they are load dependent. A relatively new technique is speckle tracking-derived strain, which is relatively less dependent on loading conditions. Speckle tracking echocardiography tracks acoustic scatters (speckles) of myocardium frame-by-frame to calculate strain or deformation of the myocardium. Speckle tracking echocardiography has been used extensively for strain assessment of the right and left ventricle to detect subtle disease pathology, to gain mechanistic insight, as a marker of ischemic metabolic memory, as an endpoint in clinical trials, and as a functional assessment tool. The RA is a relatively neglected chamber, as it is mostly studied for assessment of atrial mass lesions, for electrophysiological studies, and in animal models for physiological assessment. However, its role in the systolic and diastolic function of the right heart, pulmonary vascular pathology, congenital heart diseases, and combined electromechanical activation phenomena has been less explored or unexplored. Speckle tracking echocardiography is an ideal tool for the assessment of the RA because of its regional and global functional characterization, angle independence, and high temporal resolution.
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