EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL-CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING, cilt.13, sa.6, ss.524-530, 2012 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
Aims It has been shown that speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) is a feasible and reproducible method to assess left atrial (LA) function. The relationship between left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) with LA deformation parameters has not been studied comprehensively. Therefore, we propose to investigate the effects of invasively obtained LVEDP and BNP level on LA deformation parameters assessed by STE and to show the relationship between them.