Left Ventricular Strains and Right Ventricular Longitudinal Shortening Are Associated in Healthy Adults-A Detailed Analysis from the Three-Dimensional Speckle-Tracking Echocardiographic MAGYAR-Healthy Study

Overview

Journal Life (Basel)

Specialty Biology

Date 2024 Nov 27

PMID 39598220

Authors

Attila Nemes

Arpad Kormanyos

Nora Ambrus

Csaba Lengyel

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Abstract

Introduction: The right ventricle (RV) lies on the left ventricle (LV), and their shapes and movements are characteristic and significantly different. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (3DSTE)-derived LV strains, which represent LV contractility as quantitative features, and tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) as determined by M-mode echocardiography, which represents the longitudinal movement of the RV, in healthy adults.

Methods: A total of 79 healthy adults (mean age: 28.1 ± 6.3 years; 33 men) were enrolled in the present study. After two-dimensional Doppler echocardiography, 3DSTE-derived data acquisition was carried out in all cases, and detailed 3DSTE-based analysis was performed offline at a later date.

Results: Reduced TAPSE was associated with increased global and basal LV radial strain (RS). Increased TAPSE was also associated not only with increased global and basal LV-RS but also with global LV longitudinal strain (LS). An increase in global LV-RS and global LV circumferential strain (CS) showed associations with other strains except for global LV-LS. An increase in global LV-LS did not show associations with other strains. Increased global LV-RS was associated with reduced TAPSE, while the degree of global LV-LS and global LV-CS did not show associations with TAPSE.

Conclusions: Three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography-derived LV-RS and LV-LS are associated with the longitudinal shortening of the RV represented by TAPSE in healthy adults.

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