The evaluation of right ventricle dyssynchrony by speckle tracking echocardiography in systemic sclerosis patients.

Murat DemirciBeste Ozben Sadıc Murat SunbulAltug CincinYusuf Emre GurelTuba Bayram GuctekinZekeriya DoganYasemin SahinkayaHaner DireskeneliKursat TigenNurten Sayar

Published in: Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU (2021)

SSc patients had not only reduced RV-LS but also impaired RV synchronicity even as conventional echocardiographic variables were preserved.

Keyphrases

systemic sclerosis
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
mycobacterium tuberculosis
left ventricular
newly diagnosed
pulmonary hypertension
prognostic factors
interstitial lung disease
heart failure
rheumatoid arthritis
pulmonary artery
coronary artery
patient reported