Assessment of Tricuspid Annular Motion by Speckle Tracking in Anesthetized Patients Using Transesophageal Echocardiography.

CONCLUSIONS: TMAD is a quick and angle-independent method to quantitatively assess RV longitudinal function by TEE. It correlates strongly with M-mode TAPSE on TTE. Because TMAD and TAPSE were not simultaneously measured in this study, their correlation is subject to differences in loading conditions, general anesthesia, and changes in the disease process. TMAD may be easily applied in routine clinical settings and its role in the perioperative environment deserves to be further explored. PMID: 29116970 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Anesthesia and Analgesia - November 7, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Shen T, Picard MH, Hua L, Burns SM, Andrawes MN Tags: Anesth Analg Source Type: research