Utility of strain-echocardiography in current clinical practice

Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 61-70

  Dohi, Kaoru ^a   Sugiura, Emiyo ^a   Ito, Masaaki ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Left ventricle; Right ventricle; Speckle tracking echocardiography; Strain

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENDER; HEART ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE TENSION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84959542639     PISSN: 13490222     EISSN: 1880344X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12574-016-0282-8     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Yingchoncharoen T, Agarwal S, Popovic ZB, et al. Normal ranges of left ventricular strain: a meta-analysis. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2013;26:185–91.
2. Takigiku K, Takeuchi M, Izumi C, et al. Normal range of left ventricular 2-dimensional strain: Japanese Ultrasound Speckle Tracking of the Left Ventricle (JUSTICE) study. Circ J. 2012;76:2623–32.
3. Farsalinos KE, Daraban AM, Unlu S, et al. Head-to-head comparison of global longitudinal strain measurements among nine different vendors: the EACVI/ASE inter-vendor comparison study. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2015;28(1171–81):e1172.
4. Sun JP, Lee AP, Wu C, et al. Quantification of left ventricular regional myocardial function using two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography in healthy volunteers–a multi-center study. Int J Cardiol. 2013;167:495–501.
5. Zghal F, Bougteb H, Reant P, et al. Assessing global and regional left ventricular myocardial function in elderly patients using the bidimensional strain method. Echocardiography. 2011;28:978–82.
6. Cheng S, Larson MG, McCabe EL, et al. Age- and sex-based reference limits and clinical correlates of myocardial strain and synchrony: the Framingham Heart Study. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2013;6:692–9.
7. Dalen H, Thorstensen A, et al. Segmental and global longitudinal strain and strain rate based on echocardiography of 1266 healthy individuals: the HUNT study in Norway. Eur J Echocardiogr. 2010;11:176–83.
8. Takamura T, Dohi K, Onishi K, et al. Left ventricular contraction-relaxation coupling in normal, hypertrophic, and failing myocardium quantified by speckle-tracking global strain and strain rate imaging. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2010;23:747–54.
9. Ishizu T, Seo Y, Kameda Y, et al. Left ventricular strain and transmural distribution of structural remodeling in hypertensive heart disease. Hypertension. 2014;63:500–6.
10. Enomoto M, Ishizu T, Seo Y, et al. Subendocardial systolic dysfunction in asymptomatic normotensive diabetic patients. Circ J. 2015;79:1749–55.
11. Kraigher-Krainer E, Shah AM, Gupta DK, et al. Impaired systolic function by strain imaging in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014;63:447–56.
12. Shah AM, Claggett B, Sweitzer NK, et al. Prognostic importance of impaired systolic function in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and the impact of spironolactone. Circulation. 2015;132:402–14.
13. Yiu KH, Atsma DE, Delgado V, et al. Myocardial structural alteration and systolic dysfunction in preclinical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation carriers. PLoS One. 2012;7:e36115.
14. Sun JP, Stewart WJ, Yang XS, et al. Differentiation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cardiac amyloidosis from other causes of ventricular wall thickening by two-dimensional strain imaging echocardiography. Am J Cardiol. 2009;103:411–5.
15. Thavendiranathan P, Poulin F, Lim KD, et al. Use of myocardial strain imaging by echocardiography for the early detection of cardiotoxicity in patients during and after cancer chemotherapy: a systematic review. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014;63(25 Pt A):2751–68.
16. Seidman AD, Fornier MN, Esteva FJ, et al. Weekly trastuzumab and paclitaxel therapy for metastatic breast cancer with analysis of efficacy by HER2 immunophenotype and gene amplification. J Clin Oncol. 2001;19:2587–95.
17. Galli E, Lancellotti P, Sengupta PP, et al. LV mechanics in mitral and aortic valve diseases: value of functional assessment beyond ejection fraction. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014;7:1151–66.
18. Yamashita E, Takeuchi M, Seo Y, et al. Prognostic value of paradoxical low-gradient severe aortic stenosis in Japan: Japanese Multicenter Aortic Stenosis Study, Retrospective (JUST-R) Registry. J Cardiol. 2015;65:360–8.
19. Sato K, Seo Y, Ishizu T, et al. Prognostic value of global longitudinal strain in paradoxical low-flow, low-gradient severe aortic stenosis with preserved ejection fraction. Circ J. 2014;78:2750–9.
20. Witkowski TG, Thomas JD, Debonnaire PJ, et al. Global longitudinal strain predicts left ventricular dysfunction after mitral valve repair. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2013;14:69–76.
21. Cho GY, Marwick TH, Kim HS, et al. Global 2-dimensional strain as a new prognosticator in patients with heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009;54:618–24.
22. Tanaka H, Matsumoto K, Sawa T, et al. Evaluation of global circumferential strain as prognostic marker after administration of beta-blockers for dilated cardiomyopathy. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014;30:1279–87.
23. Suffoletto MS, Dohi K, Cannesson M, et al. Novel speckle-tracking radial strain from routine black-and-white echocardiographic images to quantify dyssynchrony and predict response to cardiac resynchronization therapy. Circulation. 2006;113:960–8.
24. Maruo T, Seo Y, Yamada S, et al. The speckle tracking imaging for the assessment of cardiac resynchronization therapy (START) study. Circ J. 2015;79:613–22.
25. Chia EM, Hsieh CH, Boyd A, et al. Effects of age and gender on right ventricular systolic and diastolic function using two-dimensional speckle-tracking strain. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2014;27(1079–86):e1071.
26. Sugiura E, Dohi K, Onishi K, et al. Reversible right ventricular regional non-uniformity quantified by speckle-tracking strain imaging in patients with acute pulmonary thromboembolism. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2009;22:1353–9.
27. Ichikawa K, Dohi K, Sugiura E, et al. Ventricular function and dyssynchrony quantified by speckle-tracking echocardiography in patients with acute and chronic right ventricular pressure overload. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2013;26:483–92.
28. Fine NM, Chen L, Bastiansen PM, et al. Outcome prediction by quantitative right ventricular function assessment in 575 subjects evaluated for pulmonary hypertension. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2013;6:711–21.
29. Norum IB, Ruddox V, Edvardsen T, et al. Diagnostic accuracy of left ventricular longitudinal function by speckle tracking echocardiography to predict significant coronary artery stenosis. A systematic review. BMC Med Imaging. 2015;15:25.
30. Okada K, Yamada S, Iwano H, et al. Myocardial shortening in 3 orthogonal directions and its transmural variation in patients with nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circ J. 2015;79:2471–9.
31. Dohi K, Onishi K, Gorcsan J 3rd, et al. Role of radial strain and displacement imaging to quantify wall motion dyssynchrony in patients with left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony and chronic right ventricular pressure overload. Am J Cardiol. 2008;101:1206–12.