Echocardiographic Myocardial Work: A Novel Method to Assess Left Ventricular Function in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease and Diabetes Mellitus

AC Frișan, C Mornoș, MA Lazăr, R Șoșdean… - Medicina, 2024 - mdpi.com
Myocardial ischemia caused by coronary artery disease (CAD) and the presence of
metabolic abnormalities and microvascular impairments detected in patients with diabetes …

[HTML][HTML] Global left ventricular myocardial work index and medium-term adverse cardiovascular events after ST-elevation myocardial infarction

AT Timóteo, LM Branco, A Galrinho, P Rio… - International journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Left ventricular global longitudinal strain (GLS) has incremental prognostic
value over ejection fraction (EF) in patients with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction …

Myocardial Work Assessment in Patients after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting during Cardiac Rehabilitation

F Perone, R Ancona, F di Stasio, V La Gambina… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: Myocardial work is an innovative echocardiographic tool to assess left
ventricular performance. Emerging data have shown the added value of this method for …

[HTML][HTML] Hypertensive Heart Disease: Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Treatment

X Huang, L Hu, Z Long, X Wang, J Wu… - Reviews in …, 2024 - imrpress.com
Hypertensive heart disease (HHD) presents a substantial global health burden, spanning a
spectrum from subtle cardiac functional alterations to overt heart failure. In this …

Noninvasive Assessment of Myocardial Work in Children.

HM Nawaytou, LL Mertens - Journal of the American Society of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The noninvasive assessment of ventricular function is an ongoing challenge with new tools
and measurements always being considered and tested. The noninvasive assessment of …

Timing and Patient Position During Cuff Blood Pressure Measurement Affect Myocardial Work Parameters Measured by Echocardiography

S Fisicaro, A Clement, M Tomaselli, M Penso… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Although cuff blood pressure measurement is a critical parameter to calculate
myocardial work noninvasively, there is no recommendation about when and how to …

Myocardial Work: Going Down A Rabbit Hole?

V Doan, M Chaney - Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular …, 2024 - jcvaonline.com
OVER THE PAST 3 decades, increasing use of transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and/or
transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in order to guide hemodynamic management in …

Prognostic relevance of global work index and global constructive work in patients with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

P Chen, M Aurich, S Greiner, G Maliandi… - … International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Myocardial work (MW) derived from pressure-strain loops is a novel non-invasive tool to
assess left ventricular (LV) function, incorporating global longitudinal strain (GLS) by speckle …

Myocardial Work as a Metric of Cardiac Performance

PA Pellikka - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 2023 - onlinejase.com
The current issue of JASE features three articles on myocardial work, an echocardiographic
metric of cardiac function that appears increasingly important in quantifying myocardial …

Bench to Bedside… And Back Again

TR Kimball - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 2024 - onlinejase.com
In this issue, Gu et al. 1 present a study in which they investigated left ventricular (LV)
function in children with chronic kidney disease using a novel index (the first-phase ejection …