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ReviewEcho research and practice2016

Clinical utility of speckle-tracking echocardiography in cardiac resynchronisation therapy.

Sitara G Khan, Dimitris Klettas, Stam Kapetanakis, Mark J Monaghan

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Review in Echo research and practice, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Using three-dimensional echocardiography to guide left ventricle lead position in cardiac resynchronization therapy: does it make any difference.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2017
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  3. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Response Assessment with Electromechanical Activation Mapping within 24 Hours of Device Implantation: A Pilot Study.Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sitara G KhanKing's College London British Heart Foundation Centre, London, UK Department of Cardiology, King's College Hospital, London, UK.
Dimitris KlettasDepartment of Cardiology, King's College Hospital, London, UK.
Stam KapetanakisDepartment of Cardiology, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
Mark J MonaghanKing's College London British Heart Foundation Centre, London, UK Department of Cardiology, King's College Hospital, London, UK mark.monaghan@nhs.net.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) can profoundly improve outcome in selected patients with heart failure; however, response is difficult to predict and can be absent in up to one in three patients. There has been a substantial amount of interest in the echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular dyssynchrony, with the ultimate aim of reliably identifying patients who will respond to CRT. The measurement of myocardial deformation (strain) has conventionally been assessed using tissue Doppler imaging (TDI), which is limited by its angle dependence and ability to measure in a single plane. Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography is a technique that provides measurements of strain in three planes, by tracking patterns of ultrasound interference ('speckles') in the myocardial wall throughout the cardiac cycle. Since its initial use over 15 years ago, it has emerged as a tool that provides more robust, reproducible and sensitive markers of dyssynchrony than TDI. This article reviews the use of two-dimensional and three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography in the assessment of dyssynchrony, including the identification of echocardiographic parameters that may hold predictive potential for the response to CRT. It also reviews the application of these techniques in guiding optimal LV lead placement pre-implant, with promising results in clinical improvement post-CRT.

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cardiac resynchronisation therapydyssynchronyspeckle-tracking echocardiographystrain

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PMID27249816
PMCPMC5402657

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