Right Ventricular Function Improves After Bench Press: A Speckle Tracking Echocardiography Study.

: The association between right ventricular myocardial fiber deformation and nutrition in weightlifters has not been fully characterized. This study analyzed nutritional factors and right ventricle speckle tracking echocardiography parameters in weightlifters before and after bench press exercises. : This interventional study examined the effects of bench press exercises on myocardial function.

Detecting heart failure in severe asthma patients using speckle tracking echocardiography.

Background: To determine the presence of acute myocardial dysfunction in status asthmaticus.

Methodology: From 2006 to 2025, we studied severe asthma patients, healthy controls, and weightlifters performing bench press. Group differences were evaluated using echocardiography with Speckle Tracking by velocity vector imaging (VVI).

Usefulness of vector velocity imaging in the descending thoracic aorta.

Objective: To evaluate the Speckle Tracking values in the descending thoracic aorta (DTA) of a healthy population.

Desing: This is an observational study.

Setting: Hospital Universitario de Jaén.

Right Ventricular Strain and Outflow Tract Velocity Time Integral Are Associated with Mortality in Critically Ill Patients with Pulmonary Embolism.

High-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) is often fatal because of right ventricular heart failure. However, right ventricular echocardiographic parameters that are associated with adverse outcomes in PE are incompletely characterized. Our objective was to evaluate if right ventricular global longitudinal strain (RVGLS) and right ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral (RVOT VTI) might be associated with mortality in PE.