2020
Speckle tracking echocardiography can predict subclinical myocardial involvement in patients with sarcoidosis: A meta‐analysis
Barssoum K, Altibi A, Rai D, Kumar A, Kharsa A, Chowdhury M, Thakkar S, Shahid S, Abdelazeem M, Abuzaid A, Baibhav B, Parikh V, Feitell S, Balmer‐Swain M, Rao M, Amsallem M, Nanda N. Speckle tracking echocardiography can predict subclinical myocardial involvement in patients with sarcoidosis: A meta‐analysis. Echocardiography 2020, 37: 2061-2070. PMID: 33058271, DOI: 10.1111/echo.14886.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLeft ventricular global longitudinal strainGlobal circumferential strainSpeckle tracking echocardiographyStandardized mean differenceCardiac sarcoidosisCardiac magnetic resonanceSarcoidosis groupTracking echocardiographyHealthy controlsConfidence intervalsExtra-cardiac sarcoidosisGlobal longitudinal strainSubclinical myocardial involvementMeta-analysisScreening of CSAdvanced imaging modalitiesRandom-effects modelEnglish-language articlesPositron emission tomographyMyocardial involvementSarcoidosis patientsCardiac symptomsFDG-PETLongitudinal strainEchocardiography
2019
Diagnostic accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography in the detection of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in heart transplant recipients: A systematic review and meta‐analysis study
Elkaryoni A, Abu‐Sheasha G, Altibi A, Hassan A, Ellakany K, Nanda N. Diagnostic accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography in the detection of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in heart transplant recipients: A systematic review and meta‐analysis study. Echocardiography 2019, 36: 528-536. PMID: 30726558, DOI: 10.1111/echo.14268.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAllograftsCoronary Artery DiseaseDobutamineEchocardiography, StressHeart TransplantationHumansPostoperative ComplicationsReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificityConceptsDetecting cardiac allograft vasculopathyAccuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiographyCardiac allograft vasculopathyDobutamine stress echocardiographyDiagnostic accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiographyHeart transplant recipientsStress echocardiographyAllograft vasculopathyArea under curveTransplant recipientsDiagnostic accuracySensitivity of dobutamine stress echocardiographyEarly CAVOdds ratioSummary receiver operating characteristic analysisDetection of cardiac allograft vasculopathyHierarchical summary receiver operating characteristic analysisIntravascular ultrasoundCochrane Central Register of Controlled TrialsCentral Register of Controlled TrialsReceiver operating characteristic analysisCohort of patientsDiagnostic odds ratioNegative likelihood ratioPositive likelihood ratio