Systolic longitudinal function of the left ventricle assessed by speckle tracking in heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction

ABSTRACT

Background: Echocardiographic evaluations of the longitudinal axis of the left ventricular [LV] function have been used in the diagnosis and assessment of heart failure with normal ejection fraction [HFNEF]. The evaluation of the global and segmental peak systolic longitudinal strains [PSLSs] by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography [STE] may correlate with conventional echocardiography findings. We aimed to use STE to evaluate the longitudinal function of the LV in patients with HFNEF