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ArticleEndocrine connections2021

Effect of adrenalectomy on remission of subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in patients with pheochromocytoma: a speckle-tracking echocardiography study.

Jan Kvasnička, Ondřej Petrák, Tomáš Zelinka, Judita Klímová, Barbora Kološová, Květoslav Novák, David Michalský, Jiří Widimský, Robert Holaj

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Article in Endocrine connections, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Jan Kvasnička3rd Department of Medicine, General University Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic.
Ondřej Petrák3rd Department of Medicine, General University Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic.
Tomáš Zelinka3rd Department of Medicine, General University Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic.
Judita Klímová3rd Department of Medicine, General University Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic.
Barbora Kološová3rd Department of Medicine, General University Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic.
Květoslav NovákDepartment of Urology, General University Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic.
David Michalský1st Department of Surgery, General University Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic.
Jiří Widimský3rd Department of Medicine, General University Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic.
Robert Holaj3rd Department of Medicine, General University Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPheochromocytomas (PHEO) are tumours with the ability to produce, metabolize and secrete catecholamines. Catecholamines overproduction leads to the decrease of longitudinal function of the left ventricle (LV) measured by speckle-tracking echocardiography. Patients with PHEO have a lower magnitude of global longitudinal strain (GLS) than patients with essential hypertension. GLS normalization is expected after resolution of catecholamine overproduction.

methodsTwenty-four patients (14 females and 10 males) with a recent diagnosis of PHEO have been examined before and 1 year after adrenalectomy. An echocardiographic examination including speckle-tracking analysis with the evaluation of GLS and regional longitudinal strain (LS) in defined groups of LV segments (basal, mid-ventricular and apical) was performed.

resultsOne year after adrenalectomy, the magnitude of GLS increased (-14.3 ± 1.8 to -17.7 ± 1.6%; P < 0.001). When evaluating the regional LS, the most significant increase in the differences was evident in the apical segment compared to mid-ventricular and basal segments of LV (-5.4 ± 5.0 vs -1.9 ± 2.7 vs -1.6 ± 3.8; P < 0.01).

conclusionsIn patients with PHEO, adrenalectomy leads to an improvement of subclinical LV dysfunction represented by the increasing magnitude of GLS, which is the most noticeable in apical segments of LV.

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adrenalectomyechocardiographyglobal longitudinal strainpheochromocytoma

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