Speckle-tracking echocardiography in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a prospective multicenter controlled cross-sectional study
P Amedro, M Vincenti, G De La Villeon… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Prognosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is related to cardiac
dysfunction. Speckle-tracking echocardiographic (STE) imaging is emerging as a
noninvasive functional biomarker to consider in the early detection of DMD-related
cardiomyopathy. However, STE analysis has not been assessed in a prospectively
controlled study, especially in presymptomatic children with DMD, and no study has used
STE analysis in all three displacements (longitudinal, radial, and circumferential) and for …
dysfunction. Speckle-tracking echocardiographic (STE) imaging is emerging as a
noninvasive functional biomarker to consider in the early detection of DMD-related
cardiomyopathy. However, STE analysis has not been assessed in a prospectively
controlled study, especially in presymptomatic children with DMD, and no study has used
STE analysis in all three displacements (longitudinal, radial, and circumferential) and for …