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Yasunobu Hayabuchi, Miho Sakata, Shoji Kagami, Right ventricular myocardial deformation patterns in children with congenital heart disease associated with right ventricular pressure overload, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2015, Pages 890–899, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/jev011
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Abstract
Longitudinal wall motion of the right ventricle (RV) has been thoroughly studied in patients with RV dysfunction. However, circumferential strain of the RV free wall has yet to be investigated. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess the utility of RV free wall circumferential strain.
Strain profile curves were obtained using speckle tracking echocardiography from the subcostal left ventricular (LV) short-axis view in 30 normal children (normal group) and 25 patients with RV pressure overload (RVO group). The time–strain curves of three individual segmental (anterior, lateral, and inferior segments) and global circumferential deformations were evaluated. RV ejection fraction (RVEF), RV systolic pressure (RVSP), and RV fractional area change obtained in the four-chamber view and LV short-axis view [RVFAC (4CH) and RVFAC (SAX), respectively] were measured, and their relationships with RV free wall deformation were assessed. In the normal group, circumferential strain was significantly lower in the anterior segment than in the other segments. The inferior segment had a significantly larger strain than the other segments in the RVO group. Circumferential strain was predominant over longitudinal RV free wall strain in the RVO group (−18.4 ± 3.9 vs. −14.2 ± 3.8%, respectively; P < 0.005), whereas no significant difference between them was observed in the normal group (−23.0 ± 3.9 vs. −22.4 ± 4.7%, respectively). Global circumferential strain had a significantly higher correlation with RVFAC (4CH), RVFAC (SAX), RVEF, and RVSP than global longitudinal strain (P < 0.05 for all).
RV free wall circumferential strain provides better information about RV function than longitudinal strain in children with RVO.
- myocardium
- echocardiography
- right ventricular systolic pressure level
- right ventricular ejection fraction
- systolic blood pressure
- congenital heart disease
- left ventricle
- right ventricle
- child
- heart ventricle
- ejection fraction
- apical four chamber view
- right ventricular pressure
- well child
- right ventricular fractional area change
- two-dimensional speckle tracking
- longitudinal strain
- circumferential strain
- short axis