title: [Relationships between right atrial and left ventricular size and function in health subjects. Results from the three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiographic MAGYAR-Healthy Study].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The heart cycle includes systole and diastole when the heart chambers are characterized by a complex motion.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The present study was designed to test whether relationships exist between three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography-derived right atrial and routine two-dimensional echocardiography-derived left ventricular volumetric and functional parameters is healthy subjects.
  
  
  METHODS
  The present study comprised 20 healthy volunteers. Complete two-dimensional echocardiography and three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography were perfomed in all cases.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Left ventricular ejection fraction showed correlations with systolic and diastolic right atrial volumes and area strain characterzing atrial contraction in diastole. Right atrial volumes respective of cardiac cycle correlated only with left ventricular end-systolic diameter and volume, while similar relationships could not be confirmed with end-diastolic parameters.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Relationships could be demonstrated between three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography-derived right atrial and two-dimensional echocardiography-derived left ventricular volumetric and functional parameters in healthy subjects.
authors.affiliation: II. Belgyógyászati Klinika és Kardiológiai Központ, Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Szent-Györgyi Albert Klinikai Központ, Általános Orvostudományi Kar Szeged, Semmelweis u. 6., 6725.
authors.forename: Györgyike Ágnes
authors.initials: GÁ
authors.lastname: Piros
authors.forename: Péter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Domsik
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kalapos
authors.forename: Csaba
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lengyel
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Orosz
authors.forename: Tamás
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Forster
authors.forename: Attila
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nemes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016280:Atrial Function, Right; D003971:Diastole; D004452:Echocardiography; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D005260:Female; D064368:Healthy Volunteers; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009929:Organ Size; D012016:Reference Values; D013599:Systole; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left
keywords: bal kamra; echocardiography; echokardiográfia; function; funkció; háromdimenziós; jobb pitvar; left ventricle; right atrium; speckle-tracking; three-dimensional