Pediheart: Pediatric Cardiology Today

This week we enter the dual worlds of ACHD and echocardiography to review a recent work from Amsterdam on the use of speckle tracking echocardiography to predict clinical outcomes in the patient with a systemic RV. Can this modality predict a problem prior to more conventional factors or even CMR data? Can this substitute for a CMR? Why is this type of echo more challenging in the systemic RV patient? Dr. Odilia Woudstra shares her deep knowledge of this topic from her research this week! doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2019.12.014