Open AccessLeft atrial strain: a new window on left ventricular filling pressure?
Author(s) -
Quirino Ciampi,
Eugenio Picaño
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international cardiovascular forum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2410-2636
pISSN - 2409-3424
DOI - 10.17987/icfj.v1i1.6
Subject(s) - left atrial pressure , cardiology , medicine , ventricular filling , strain (injury) , blood pressure , diastole , hemodynamics
In a paper published in the current issue of this Journal, Henein et al. 1 demonstrated that pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) correlated strongly with global left atrial (LA) systolic strain rate, which was the most accurate echocardiographic variable in identifying abnormally raised pressures. these findings suggest the potential role of LA strain rate in heart failure for identifying patients with raised LA pressure.
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