Internal medicine

Heart failure

Ejection fraction

Blood pressure

Meta-analysis

Cardiology

Speckle tracking echocardiography

Ventricle

Publication bias

Diastole

Funnel plot

Confidence interval

Medicine

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Establishment of the range of normal values and associated variations of two-dimensional (2D) speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE)–derived right ventricular (RV) strain is a prerequisite for its routine clinical application in children. The objectives of this study were to perform a meta-analysis of normal ranges of RV longitudinal strain measurements derived by 2D STE in children and to identify confounders that may contribute to differences in reported measures.

Normal Ranges of Right Ventricular Systolic and Diastolic Strain Measures in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis