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ReviewCardiovascular diagnosis and therapy2021

Contemporary narrative review on left atrial strain mechanics in echocardiography: cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease and beyond.

Vardhmaan Jain, Raktim Ghosh, Manasvi Gupta, Yoshihito Saijo, Agam Bansal, Medhat Farwati, Rachel Marcus, Allan Klein, Bo Xu

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Review in Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Vardhmaan JainDepartment of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Raktim GhoshMedStar Heart and Vascular Institute at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital and MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Manasvi GuptaDepartment of Internal Medicine, UConn Health, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT, USA.
Yoshihito SaijoSection of Cardiovascular Imaging, Robert and Suzanne Tomsich, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Agam BansalDepartment of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Medhat FarwatiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Rachel MarcusMedStar Heart and Vascular Institute at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital and MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Allan KleinSection of Cardiovascular Imaging, Robert and Suzanne Tomsich, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Bo XuSection of Cardiovascular Imaging, Robert and Suzanne Tomsich, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Cleveland Clinic · USMedStar Good Samaritan Hospital · USMedStar Heart & Vascular Institute · USUConn Health · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Left atrial (LA) strain mechanics refer to the measurement of LA myocardial deformation expressed as a percentage, and have been gathering interest over the last decade with expanding research supporting their utility in multiple cardiovascular disorders. Measured through advanced dynamic imaging techniques which include tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) and two-dimensional (2D) speckle tracking echocardiography (STE), LA strain mechanics are affected by left ventricular diastolic dysfunction prior to the onset of functional and structural changes in the left ventricle (LV). There is a need for practising cardiologists to become more familiar with the clinical utility of LA strain mechanics. In this article, we begin by reviewing the physiologic function of the LA, using this as a basis for understanding LA strain mechanics. The focus of this review article is to provide a contemporary update on the utility of LA strain mechanics in a range of cardiovascular disorders, including atrial fibrillation (AF), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), valvular pathologies, coronary artery disease (CAD) as well as systemic diseases, such as hypertension (HTN), obesity and diabetes mellitus (DM). This article also highlights the current limitations in more widespread clinical applications of LA strain mechanics, as well as outlining the future perspectives on the clinical applications of LA strain mechanics.

Indexed as

echocardiographyleft atrial mechanical function (LA mechanical function)Left atrium (LA)strain imagingstrain rate imaging

Identifiers

PMID34295714
PMCPMC8261755
OpenAlexW3083788207

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