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.