ArticleFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine2022
Evaluation of left ventricular myocardial stratified strain in patients with Kawasaki disease using two-dimensional speckle tracking imaging.
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- Disease-Phase Myocardial Dysfunction by Strain Imaging in Kawasaki Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) · 2026Pooled it
- The Utility of Strain Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Pediatric Myocarditis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) · 2026Pooled it
- Multimodal Echocardiographic Assessment in Intravenous Immunoglobulin-Resistant Kawasaki Disease: From Prediction to Long-Term Surveillance.Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) · 2026Review
- Applications of speckle tracking echocardiography in paediatric and congenital heart disease: an expert consensus paper from AEPC Imaging Working Group.European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice · 2026Article
- Subclinical Myocardial Dysfunction Post Kawasaki Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Application of VVI layered strain technology to analyze changes in left ventricular myocardial motion in patients with uremia.PloS one · 2026Article
- Inflammatory reaction in the acute phase of Kawasaki disease may better predict chronic cardiac dysfunction than coronary artery lesions.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
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Abstract
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute autoimmune self-limited disease of unknown etiology. We aimed to evaluate the left ventricular myocardial stratified strains in children with KD in different stages using two-dimensional speckle tracking imaging, and to find the index that can early predict myocardial function injury in children with KD. A total of 73 children with KD were divided into acute, convalescent, and chronic stages according to the disease course. All children had no coronary artery damage. Further, 64 normal children were selected as the control group. The longitudinal and circumferential strain peaks of each myocardium were recorded, and the left ventricular global longitudinal strain (LVGLS), global circumferential strain (LVGCS), and transmural gradient between endocardium and epicardium (ΔGLS, ΔGCS) were calculated. Compared with the control group, LVGLS, GLS-Endo, GLS-Mid, GLS-Epi, and ΔGLS decreased in acute KD; LVGLS, GLS-Endo, GLS-Mid, GLS-Epi, ΔGLS, LVGCS, GCS-Mid, and GCS-Epi decreased in the convalescent stage; and only GLS-Endo was lower in children with chronic KD ( Conclusions: The systolic function of the whole layer of the myocardium decreased to varying degrees in children with KD. With the extension of the disease course, the myocardial function gradually recovered, but the subendocardial myocardium was still damaged. LVGLS could identify the abnormity of left ventricular contractility in patients with KD at the acute stage. Thus, it has the promising prospect of clinical diagnosis.
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