Straining the RV to predict the future

Affiliations

¹ Heart Centre, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia; St Vincent's Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: Andre.LaGerche@svhm.org.au.
² Heart Centre, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia; St Vincent's Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia.

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André La Gerche et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Feb.

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. 2015 Feb;8(2):170-1.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.11.006.

¹ Heart Centre, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia; St Vincent's Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: Andre.LaGerche@svhm.org.au.
² Heart Centre, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia; St Vincent's Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia.

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Keywords: acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction; right ventricular function; strain echocardiography.

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Impaired RV global longitudinal strain is associated with poor long-term clinical outcomes in patients with acute inferior STEMI.
Park SJ, Park JH, Lee HS, Kim MS, Park YK, Park Y, Kim YJ, Lee JH, Choi SW, Jeong JO, Kwon IS, Seong IW. Park SJ, et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Feb;8(2):161-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.10.011. Epub 2015 Jan 7. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015. PMID: 25577444