Speckle tracking echocardiographic findings
Left ventricular global longitudinal strain, LVGLSR, LVGCS, LVGCSR, RVGLS and RVGLSR were significantly lower in all the patients and the controls before the treatment. Moreover, there were no statistically significant differences for all the strain levels between moderate/severe carditis and mild/no carditis groups (Table 2).
Table 2. Strain parameters before treatment.