ArticleAnatolian journal of cardiology2023
Assessment of Myocardial Mechanics in Acute Rheumatic Fever Using Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography.
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- Cardiac Function in Pediatric Patients with MIS-C Using Speckle Tracking and Conventional Echocardiography: A Longitudinal, Single-Center Study.Pediatric cardiology · 2025Article
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backgroundThis study aims to evaluate the role of speckle-tracking echocardiography to identify myocardial deformation in acute rheumatic fever.
methodsTwenty-seven patients and 27 healthy children were prospectively evaluated. The patient group was divided into 2 subgroups based on echocardiographic findings, with or without carditis. The left ventricular global longitudinal strain and strain rate, left ventricular global circumferential strain and strain rate, and right ventricular global lon-gitudinal strain and strain rate were assessed by speckle-tracking echocardiography.
resultsIn the acute phase of the disease, all values except the right ventricular global longitudinal strain were found to be significantly below the control group in the patient cohort. No significant difference was found between the patients grouped as carditis and non-carditis in the acute period. Comparison of the acute period with the post-treatment period revealed a significant increase in all strain values of the patients with carditis and significant increases observed in all values except left ventricular global longitudinal strain rate, left ventricular global circumferential strain rate, and right ventricular global longitudinal strain rate values in patients without carditis. Apart from the right ventricular global longitudinal strain rate, which was significantly lower in the non-carditis group compared to the control group, there was no significant difference in strain values between the patient and control groups following treatment.
conclusionIn the present study, we found that all patients, including patients in whom no valvular involvement was detected by echocardiography in the acute phase of acute rheumatic fever, had a lower right and left ventricular strain and strain rate measurements and that these findings improved after treatment, suggesting that strain echocardiography may be a helpful diagnostic method, especially in patients without valvular involvement.
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