Objective: The purpose of this study is to compare the analysis of right ventricular (RV) free
wall strain via 2D speckle tracking echocardiography with conventional echocardiography …

Background Right ventricular function has been identified as an important prognostic factor
in children with pulmonary arterial hypertension. The aim of the study was to assess the …

Background Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is a major determinant of outcomes in
patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), although the optimal measure of RV …

Objective The aim of this study was to assess right ventricular (RV) function in pulmonary
hypertension due to left heart disease (LHD-PH) by two-dimensional speckle tracking …

Objectives We aimed to investigate the association between right ventricular longitudinal
strain measured by two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) and right …

Background: Assessment of right ventricular (RV) function in pulmonary hypertension (PH)
patients is difficult but clinically important. Objective: To compare novel 3-dimensional (3D) …

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a progressively fatal disease having a significant impact on
right ventricular (RV) function, a major determinant of long-term outcome in PH patients. In …

Background Right ventricular (RV) strain imaging using speckle-tracking echocardiography
(STE) is a quantitative method of assessing RV systolic function that has shown prognostic …

Summary Recently two-dimensional (2D) speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) derived
from right ventricular (RV) free wall has been shown to be a very useful tool for the …

BACKGROUND: The objectives of this study were to test the utility of right ventricular (RV)
speckle-tracking strain as an assessment tool for RV function in patients with pulmonary …