UMMS Affiliation

Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Publication Date

2019-01-03

Document Type

Article

Disciplines

Bacterial Infections and Mycoses | Cardiology | Cardiovascular Diseases

Abstract

Myocardial deformation imaging (strain imaging) is a technique to directly quantify the extent of myocardial contractility and overcomes several of the limitations of ejection fraction. The application of the most commonly used strain imaging method; speckle-tracking echocardiography to patients with sepsis cardiomyopathy heralds an exciting development to the field. However; the body of evidence and knowledge on the utility, feasibility and prognostic value of left ventricular global longitudinal strain in sepsis cardiomyopathy is still evolving. We conducted a review of literature on utility of left ventricular global longitudinal strain in sepsis cardiomyopathy. We discuss the role of left ventricular global longitudinal strain in mortality prediction, utility and limitations of the technique in the context of sepsis cardiomyopathy.

Keywords

global longitudinal strain, left ventricular function, sepsis cardiomyopathy

Rights and Permissions

© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

DOI of Published Version

10.3390/healthcare7010005

Source

Healthcare (Basel). 2019 Jan 3;7(1):5. pii: E5. doi: 10.3390/healthcare7010005. Link to article on publisher's site

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)

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PubMed ID

30609787

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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