Left Atrial Fractional Shortening: A Simple and Practical “Strain” for Everyone | Zendy

GiuliaElena Mandoli | Zendy; Matteo Cameli | Zendy; Edoardo Lisi | Zendy; Simona Minardi | Zendy; Valentina Capone | Zendy; Maria Concetta Pastore | Zendy; Sergio Mondillo | Zendy

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Left Atrial Fractional Shortening: A Simple and Practical “Strain” for Everyone

Author(s) -

GiuliaElena Mandoli,

Matteo Cameli,

Edoardo Lisi,

Simona Minardi,

Valentina Capone,

Maria Concetta Pastore,

Sergio Mondillo

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

journal of cardiovascular echography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.255

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 2347-193X

pISSN - 2211-4122

DOI - 10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_74_18

Subject(s) - fractional shortening , parasternal line , medicine , ejection fraction , heart failure

The function of the left atrium (LA) is reduced in many cardiac diseases even with normal size. The assessment of its compliance could represent an added value in an echocardiographic report in case the gold standard technique (speckle-tracking echocardiography [STE]) is not available. We sought to test a simple and quick method as surrogate of STE: the dynamic measurement of the LA anteroposterior diameter (APD) that we called LA fractional shortening (LAFS).

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