Normative Data for Left and Right Ventricular Systolic Strain in Healthy Caucasian Italian Children by Two-Dimensional Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography - 02/06/18
, Eliana Franchi, MD a, Nadia Assanta, MD a, Marco Marotta, MD a, Cecilia Viacava, MD a, Sabrina Molinaro, PhD a, Giorgio Iervasi, MD b, Giuseppe Santoro, MD a, Martin Koestenberger, MD dAbstract |
Background |
There is an increasing interest in echocardiographic strain (ε) measurements for the assessment of ventricular myocardial function in children; however, pediatric nomograms remain limited. Our aim was to establish pediatric nomograms for the left ventricular (LV) and the right ventricular (RV) ε measured by two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) in a large cohort of healthy children prospectively enrolled.
Methods |
Echocardiographic measurements included STE LV longitudinal and circumferential and RV longitudinal global end-systolic ε. Age, weight, height, heart rate (HR), and body surface area (BSA) were used as independent variables in different analyses to predict the mean values of each measurement. Echocardiograms were performed by Philips-iE33 systems (Philips, Bothell, WA) and offline measurements on Philips-Q-Lab-9.
Results |
In all, 721 subjects (age 31 days to 17 years; 48% female) were studied. Low coefficients of determination (R2) were noted among all of the ε parameters evaluated and adjusted for age, weight, height, BSA, and HR (i.e., R2 all ≤ 0.10; range, 0.01-0.088). This hampered the possibility of performing z-scores with a sufficient reliability. Thus, we are limited to presenting data as mean values (±SD) stratified for age groups and divided by gender. LV longitudinal ε values decreased with age (P < .001), while no significant age-related variations were noted for RV longitudinal ε. A significant base-to-apex (lowest to highest) gradient in circumferential LV ε values was noted at all ages (P < .001).
Conclusions |
We report pediatric echocardiographic normative data for 2D-STE for the LV and RV ε by using vendor-specific software. Our results confirm previous observations, showing only little variations of strain parameters with age and gender.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Highlights |
• | Pediatric echocardiographic normal data for 2D-STE for the LV and RV ε have been reported. |
• | Only small variations of ε parameters with age and gender have been noted. |
• | Data have been presented as mean values (±SD) since the low R2 hampered the building of accurate z scores. |
Keywords : Echocardiography, Children, Nomograms, Strain
Abbreviations : 2D STE, ε, BSA, CV, GCS, GLS, HR, ICC, LV, R2, RV
Plan
| This work was supported by an Italian Health Ministry Finalized Research Young Research Award 2011-2012, No. GR-211-02350662. |
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| Conflicts of Interest: None. |
Vol 31 - N° 6
P. 712 - juin 2018 Retour au numéro
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