Estu Rudiktyo, Amiliana M Soesanto, Maarten J Cramer, Emir Yonas, Arco J Teske, Bambang B Siswanto, Pieter A Doevendans
BACKGROUND: Assessment of left ventricular (LV) function plays a pivotal role in the management of patients with valvular heart disease, including those caused by rheumatic heart disease. Noninvasive LV pressure-strain loop analysis is emerging as a new echocardiographic method to evaluate global LV systolic function, integrating longitudinal strain by speckle-tracking analysis and noninvasively measured blood pressure to estimate myocardial work. The aim of this study was to characterize global LV myocardial work efficiency in patients with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis (MS) with preserved ejection fraction (EF)...
October 2023: Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging