The prognostic role of myocardial strain indices and dipyridamole stress test in renal transplantation patients.

Lampros LakkasKaterina K NakaAris BechlioulisIoannis GirdisAnila DuniVasileios KoutlasMaria MoustakliChristos S KatsourasEvangelia DounousiLampros K Michalis

Published in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2019)

In RT patients, coronary vascular dysfunction (ie, low CFR) was associated with the occurrence of adverse events. DIPSE-induced changes in myocardial strain and classic echocardiographic indices could identify individuals with a subclinical deterioration in cardiac function at follow-up. This may indicate that DIPSE could serve as a means to assess myocardial reserve in this population.

Keyphrases

ejection fraction
left ventricular
end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
coronary artery
heart failure
oxidative stress
pulmonary hypertension
mitral valve
left atrial
heat stress