Publications by authors named "Kasper Djernaes"
Article Synopsis
- Global longitudinal strain (GLS) is an important indicator of heart failure risk, but analyzing the entire strain curve may uncover additional valuable information about heart health.
- This study used unsupervised machine learning (uML) to examine strain curves from over 3700 participants, finding 10 distinct clusters that revealed unique patterns predicting heart failure risk independent of GLS.
- One specific cluster (cluster 9) showed a significant association with heart failure, even among younger and seemingly healthier individuals, indicating that other strain characteristics beyond peak GLS value are crucial for risk assessment.
Pulmonary vascular abnormalities, quantified from computed tomography scans, have frequently been observed in patients with pulmonary diseases. However, little is known about pulmonary vascular changes in patients with cardiac disease. Thus, we aimed to examine the cardiopulmonary relation in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) by comparing pulmonary vascular volume (PVV) to echocardiographic measures and AF severity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite improvement in treatment strategies of atrial fibrillation (AF), a considerable number of patients still experience recurrence of atrial tachyarrhythmia (ATA) following catheter ablation (CA). This study aimed to investigate the prognostic value of left atrial (LA) deformation analysis in a large group of patients undergoing CA for AF.
Methods: This study included 678 patients with AF.
Aims: The present study had two aims: (i) compare echocardiographic parameters in COVID-19 patients with matched controls and (2) assess the prognostic value of measures of left (LV) and right ventricular (RV) function in relation to COVID-19 related death.
Methods And Results: In this prospective multicentre cohort study, 214 consecutive hospitalized COVID-19 patients underwent an echocardiographic examination (by pre-determined research protocol). All participants were successfully matched 1:1 with controls from the general population on age, sex, and hypertension.
Usefulness of left atrial speckle tracking echocardiography in predicting recurrence of atrial fibrillation after radiofrequency ablation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Int J Cardiovasc Imaging
July 2020
The usefulness of peak atrial longitudinal strain (PALS) in identifying patients at high risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence after radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has been investigated in several small AF populations. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to investigate whether PALS predicts recurrence of AF after RFA treatment. MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library were searched.
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