ReviewEuropean heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging2019
Myocardial strain imaging: review of general principles, validation, and sources of discrepancies.
Review in European heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05376254 (Three-Dimensional Assessment of Right Ventricular Function in Patients Undergoing Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation), which is not on this map. Cited by 255 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Three-Dimensional Assessment of Right Ventricular Function in Patients Undergoing Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
Who cites it
255 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 465 citations in OpenAlex.
- The predictive value of right ventricle speckle tracking echocardiography in patients undergoing cardiac surgery, a systematic review and meta-analysis.Cardiovascular ultrasound · 2025Pooled it
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for discrimination of hypertensive heart disease and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Pooled it
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- Recovery of right ventricular function and strain in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and concurrent chronic total occlusion.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2022Trial
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- Myocardial injury in systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus nephritis: a silent threat.Clinical kidney journal · 2026Review
- Cardiac MRI-based strain analysis for the assessment of left atrial dysfunction in patients with atrial fibrillation.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2026Article
- Mechanical signatures of left ventricular ejection fraction and mass index in a community cohort (ACE 1950).The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2026Article
- Differential Biventricular Strain Recovery With Selective Fibrosis Biomarker Regression After Sleeve Gastrectomy: A Prospective CMR Feature-Tracking Study.Obesity surgery · 2026Article
- Clinical value of gated SPECT-derived left ventricular strain and reserve: derivation of quantitative cutoffs.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2026Article
- Lung ultrasound feature tracking to quantify regional lung strain in mechanically ventilated pigs.Respiratory research · 2026Article
- Manual long axis strain compared to automated feature-tracking deformation imaging for identification of masked left heart involvement in pulmonary hypertension.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2026Article
- Left Atrial Reservoir Strain Combined With Left Ventricular Longitudinal Strain Improves Discrimination of HFpEF in Patients With Hypertension.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2026Article
- Biventricular Systolic Function and Myocardial Deformation in Liver Cirrhosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Feature Tracking Studies.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Normal reference values and determinants of right heart strain derived from speckle tracking echocardiography: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- Measuring left ventricular global longitudinal strain in different contrast-enhanced echocardiography modes: a feasibility study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2026Article
- Changes in myocardial elasticity derived from in-vivo cardiac MRI in a swine model of ischemic heart failure.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Cardiac Structural and Functional Evaluation Using a Heart Motion Correction Algorithm for Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography in Patients With High Heart Rates.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Redox Imbalance in the Cardiohepatic Syndrome: The Emerging Role of Oxidative Stress in Cirrhosis-Associated Cardiac Dysfunction.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Consensus of the National Heart Center in Collaboration With the Saudi CTO Club of the Saudi Arabian Cardiac Interventional Society.Saudi medical journal · 2026Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Myocardial tissue tracking imaging techniques have been developed for a more accurate evaluation of myocardial deformation (i.e. strain), with the potential to overcome the limitations of ejection fraction (EF) and to contribute, incremental to EF, to the diagnosis and prognosis in cardiac diseases. While most of the deformation imaging techniques are based on the similar principles of detecting and tracking specific patterns within an image, there are intra- and inter-imaging modality inconsistencies limiting the wide clinical applicability of strain. In this review, we aimed to describe the particularities of the echocardiographic and cardiac magnetic resonance deformation techniques, in order to understand the discrepancies in strain measurement, focusing on the potential sources of variation: related to the software used to analyse the data, to the different physics of image acquisition and the different principles of 2D vs. 3D approaches. As strain measurements are not interchangeable, it is highly desirable to work with validated strain assessment tools, in order to derive information from evidence-based data. There is, however, a lack of solid validation of the current tissue tracking techniques, as only a few of the commercial deformation imaging softwares have been properly investigated. We have, therefore, addressed in this review the neglected issue of suboptimal validation of tissue tracking techniques, in order to advocate for this matter.
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