Open AccessSpeckle tracking echocardiography in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and overlapping obstructive sleep apnea
Author(s) -
Carmen Pizarro,
Fabian van Essen,
Fabian Linnhoff,
Robert Schueler,
Christoph Hammerstingl,
Georg Nickenig,
Dirk Skowasch,
Marcel Weber
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/international journal of copd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2005
pISSN - 1176-9106
DOI - 10.2147/copd.s108742
Subject(s) - medicine , obstructive sleep apnea , pulmonary disease , cardiology , sleep apnea , copd , speckle tracking echocardiography , heart failure , ejection fraction
COPD and congestive heart failure represent two disease entities of growing global burden that share common etiological features. Therefore, we aimed to identify the degree of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in COPD as a function of COPD severity stages and concurrently placed particular emphasis on the presence of overlapping obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).