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Published on: November 14, 2020
Short- and mid-term effects of sleeve gastrectomy on left ventricular function with two-dimensional speckle tracking
Sinan Inci1, Murat Gül1, Yakup Alsancak2
1Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Aksaray University, Aksaray, Turkey.
Aim:
This study aimed to investigate left ventricular functions of obese patients with no known heart disease who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy by speckle tracking echocardiography in their early and medium-term postoperative follow-up.
Patients And Method:
Thirty-seven obese patients (10 M, 27 F) without coronary artery disease or heart failure who had undergone LSG were included in the study. Apical four-, three-, and two-chamber images were analyzed longitudinally by conventional methods and speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) for left ventricle functions preoperatively, at the postoperative Month 1 and at the postoperative Month 6 (QLAB 6.0), using current software.
Results:
No difference was found between standard echocardiography and Doppler parameters in terms of the 1-month versus 6-month follow-up values compared to baseline. Left ventricular STE longitudinal measurements demonstrated significantly higher longitudinal strain and strain velocity parameters in the follow-up values at Month 6 compared to the values at Month 1 and at baseline. Global longitudinal strain (GLS) was -17.48 ± 1.09% in 6-month follow-up, -16.16 ± 1.26% in 1-month follow-up, and -16.06 ± 1.25% at baseline (P < .001). A significant correlation was found between delta GLS, which represents patients' GLS change in 6 months, and delta weight, which represents patients' body weight change in 6 months.
Conclusion:
Obese patients who had undergone LSG were observed to have improved left ventricular function in the mid-term.
