Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography in Right Ventricular Function of Clinically Well Patients with Heart Transplantation

Ji, Xiang; Zhang, Junmin; Xie, Yuji; Wang, Wenyuan; Zhang, Yiwei; Xie, Mingxing; Zhang, Li

doi:10.3390/diagnostics14121305

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Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography in Right Ventricular Function of Clinically Well Patients with Heart Transplantation

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Xiang Ji

^1,2,3,†

,

Junmin Zhang

^1,2,3,†,

Yuji Xie

^1,2,3,

Wenyuan Wang

^1,2,3,

Yiwei Zhang

^1,2,3,

Mingxing Xie

^1,2,3,*

and

Li Zhang

^1,2,3,*

¹

Department of Ultrasound Medicine, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China

²

Clinical Research Center for Medical Imaging in Hubei Province, Wuhan 430022, China

³

Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan 430022, China

^*

Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.

^†

These authors contributed equally to this work.

Diagnostics 2024, 14(12), 1305; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14121305

Submission received: 7 May 2024 / Revised: 31 May 2024 / Accepted: 17 June 2024 / Published: 20 June 2024

(This article belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

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Heart transplantation (HT) is the mainstream therapy for end-stage heart disease. However, the cardiac graft function can be affected by several factors. It is important to monitor HT patients for signs of graft dysfunction. Transthoracic echocardiography is a simple, first-line, and non-invasive method for the assessment of cardiac function. The emerging speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) could quickly and easily provide additive information over traditional echocardiography. STE longitudinal deformation parameters are markers of early impairment of ventricular function. Although once called the “forgotten ventricle”, right ventricular (RV) assessment has gained attention in recent years. This review highlights the potentially favorable role of STE in assessing RV systolic function in clinically well HT patients.

Keywords: heart transplantation; echocardiography; speckle-tracking echocardiography; right ventricle; function

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Ji, X.; Zhang, J.; Xie, Y.; Wang, W.; Zhang, Y.; Xie, M.; Zhang, L. Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography in Right Ventricular Function of Clinically Well Patients with Heart Transplantation. Diagnostics 2024, 14, 1305. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14121305

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Ji X, Zhang J, Xie Y, Wang W, Zhang Y, Xie M, Zhang L. Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography in Right Ventricular Function of Clinically Well Patients with Heart Transplantation. Diagnostics. 2024; 14(12):1305. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14121305

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Ji, Xiang, Junmin Zhang, Yuji Xie, Wenyuan Wang, Yiwei Zhang, Mingxing Xie, and Li Zhang. 2024. "Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography in Right Ventricular Function of Clinically Well Patients with Heart Transplantation" Diagnostics 14, no. 12: 1305. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14121305

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Ji, X., Zhang, J., Xie, Y., Wang, W., Zhang, Y., Xie, M., & Zhang, L. (2024). Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography in Right Ventricular Function of Clinically Well Patients with Heart Transplantation. Diagnostics, 14(12), 1305. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14121305

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