Determinants of left ventricular structure, filling and long axis function in systemic sclerosis.
Roger E PeverillGene-Siew NgianCatherine MylreaJoanne SahharPublished in: PloS one (2021)
In SSc there are associations of sex, body size, age and disease type with LV structural variables, of age and heart rate with E/A, and of age with both systolic and early diastolic LV long-axis velocities. Appropriate adjustment for these variables could help to resolve current uncertainties regarding SSc effects on the left ventricle.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- systemic sclerosis
- heart rate
- blood pressure
- interstitial lung disease
- heart failure
- heart rate variability
- acute myocardial infarction
- pulmonary hypertension
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- left atrial
- pulmonary artery
- acute coronary syndrome
- ejection fraction
- coronary artery disease
- idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- congenital heart disease