The relationship between coronary artery calcium and layer-specific global longitudinal strain in patients with suspected coronary artery disease.
Emilie Katrine Frimodt-MøllerFlemming Javier OlsenMats Christian Højbjerg LassenKristoffer Grundtvig SkaarupPhilip BraininJan BechFrederik FolkeThomas Fritz-HansenGunnar GislasonTor Biering-SørensenPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2024)
In this study population with patients suspected of CAD and normal systolic function, impaired layer-specific GLS was continuously associated with increasing CACS, and decreasing GLS in all layers were associated with presence of high CACS.
Keyphrases
- coronary artery disease
- coronary artery
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- blood pressure
- heart failure
- peritoneal dialysis
- left ventricular
- prognostic factors
- pulmonary artery
- cardiovascular events
- pulmonary embolism
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- acute coronary syndrome
- aortic valve
- patient reported
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement