Global Echo Study Reveals Nuances in Heart Size and Function.

The World Alliance Societies of Echocardiography (WASE) Normal Values Study measured people's hearts from six continents, refuting the idea that the size and ...

Federico Asch, MD - MedStar Health

... Role of Echocardiography in clinical trials, and Contrast Echocardiography ... Global Echo Study Reveals Nuances in Heart Size and Function. By ...

Normal Values of Left Ventricular Size and Function on ... - PubMed

Although GLS was similar across age groups in men, in women, the youngest and middle-age cohorts revealed higher magnitudes of GLS compared with the oldest age ...

Echocardiographic reference ranges for normal cardiac chamber size

The NORRE study provides a set of normal contemporary echocardiographic values obtained from a large cohort of healthy subjects over a wide range of ages ...

Size Matters! Impact of Age, Sex, Height, and Weight on the Normal ...

The present study shows that one size does not fit all. Cardiac chamber size is influenced by body size, sex, and age.

Echocardiographic Reference Ranges of Global Longitudinal Strain ...

The aim of this study was to establish echocardiographic reference ranges, including lower normal limits of global strains for all 4 cardiac chambers.

Echocardiography strain: why is it used more and more?

In the last decade, speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) has acquired a fundamental role in the evaluation of the systolic function of the ...

Establishing ventricular and left atrial size and function in normal ...

Women exhibited smaller LV dimensions compared to men, and both showed a decrease in LV size with age. Global longitudinal strain (GLS) and ...

Ethnic differences in cardiac structure and function assessed by MRI ...

Contrary to echocardiographic studies, South Asian participants in the UK Biobank study had less concentric remodelling and higher global circumferential strain ...

LV dimensions and volumes were larger in male subjects, while LVEF and GLS were higher in female subjects. Global WASE normal ranges for LV dimensions were ...

Need for a Global Definition of Normative Echo Values—Rationale ...

Accordingly, the aims of the WASE Normal Values Study are to (1) prospectively establish normal echocardiographic values for chamber size and function across ...

Echocardiographic Predictors of Mortality in Women With Heart ...

Previous studies found that global longitudinal strain is a superior predictor of mortality in male patients with heart failure with reduced ...

Highlighting the role of global longitudinal strain assessment in ...

Left ventricular ejection fraction is the most commonly used indicator during echocardiography assessment. It shows signs of left ventricular ...

The athlete's heart: insights from echocardiography

These manifestations can include an increase in the left and right cardiac cavity sizes, increased left ventricular (LV) wall thickness and an ...

What is an echocardiogram? Uses, procedure, and results

Blood clots (thrombus) or tumors: A 2021 study found that echo can be an alternative to cardiac magnetic resonance in detecting thrombosis. A 2020 study also ...

Echocardiographic evaluation of the right atrial size and function

[15] found higher absolute sex-specific RA mean volume normal values of 46.9 ml in men and 33.6 ml in women. Lang et al. [14] reported RA volume normal values ...

Age- and Sex-Differences in Cardiac Characteristics Determined by ...

Systolic function for both ventricles including ejection fraction, stroke volume index, LV systolic global longitudinal peak strain and TAPSE did not ...

WASE Study Finds Differences in How Right Atrial Size is Reported ...

The results are presented in the poster titled, “The Evolving Relationship of Age and 3D Left Atrial Phasic Function Using Data from a Subset of the World ...

Left Ventricular Function and Exercise Capacity - JAMA Network

Elucidating the mechanisms of cardiac-related exercise limitation has been technically difficult to date. Previous studies have suggested that measurements of ...

Standard and New Echocardio Techniques, Such as Global ... - MDPI

The direct action of those diets on the heart can be assessed with global longitudinal strain (GLS). With this technology, early alteration of myocardial ...