Segmental cardiac strain assessment by two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography in surviving MIS-c patients: Correlations with myocardial flow reserve (MFR) by 13 N-ammonia PET-CT.
Gabriela Nunes LealCamila AstleyMarcos Santos LimaMaria de Fátima Rodrigues DinizAlessandro Cavalcanti LianzaKaren Saori Shiraishi SawamuraCarolina Rocha Brito MenezesCamila Lino Martins Rodrigues da SilvaVera BainRodrigo ImadaWilliam ChalelaMaria Fernanda Badue PereiraHeloisa Helena de Sousa MarquesCarlos Alberto BuchpiguelBruno GualanoClovis Artur SilvaPublished in: Microcirculation (New York, N.Y. : 1994) (2022)
We provided preliminary evidence that surviving MIS-c patients may present subclinical impairment of myocardial microcirculation. Segmental cardiac strain assessment 2DST seems useful for MIS-c cardiovascular follow-up, given its good correlation with 13 N-ammonia PET-CT derived MFR.