Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Atrial Mechanics: Function, History, Novel Techniques, Advantages, and Pitfalls

Left atrial (LA) functional analysis has an established role in assessing left ventricular diastolic function. The current standard echocardiographic parameters used to study left ventricular diastolic function include pulsed-wave Doppler mitral inflow analysis, tissue Doppler imaging measurements,...

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Autores principales: Leischik, Roman, Littwitz, Henning, Dworrak, Birgit, Garg, Pankaj, Zhu, Meihua, Sahn, David J., Horlitz, Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4508385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26236735
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/765921
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author Leischik, Roman
Littwitz, Henning
Dworrak, Birgit
Garg, Pankaj
Zhu, Meihua
Sahn, David J.
Horlitz, Marc
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description Left atrial (LA) functional analysis has an established role in assessing left ventricular diastolic function. The current standard echocardiographic parameters used to study left ventricular diastolic function include pulsed-wave Doppler mitral inflow analysis, tissue Doppler imaging measurements, and LA dimension estimation. However, the above-mentioned parameters do not directly quantify LA performance. Deformation studies using strain and strain-rate imaging to assess LA function were validated in previous research, but this technique is not currently used in routine clinical practice. This review discusses the history, importance, and pitfalls of strain technology for the analysis of LA mechanics.
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spelling pubmed-45083852015-08-02 Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Atrial Mechanics: Function, History, Novel Techniques, Advantages, and Pitfalls Leischik, Roman Littwitz, Henning Dworrak, Birgit Garg, Pankaj Zhu, Meihua Sahn, David J. Horlitz, Marc Biomed Res Int Review Article Left atrial (LA) functional analysis has an established role in assessing left ventricular diastolic function. The current standard echocardiographic parameters used to study left ventricular diastolic function include pulsed-wave Doppler mitral inflow analysis, tissue Doppler imaging measurements, and LA dimension estimation. However, the above-mentioned parameters do not directly quantify LA performance. Deformation studies using strain and strain-rate imaging to assess LA function were validated in previous research, but this technique is not currently used in routine clinical practice. This review discusses the history, importance, and pitfalls of strain technology for the analysis of LA mechanics. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4508385/ /pubmed/26236735 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/765921 Text en Copyright © 2015 Roman Leischik et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Atrial Mechanics: Function, History, Novel Techniques, Advantages, and Pitfalls
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title_short Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Atrial Mechanics: Function, History, Novel Techniques, Advantages, and Pitfalls
title_sort echocardiographic evaluation of left atrial mechanics: function, history, novel techniques, advantages, and pitfalls
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