Temporal interpretation of right ventricular strain after pulmonary embolism
Hasan Burak Isleyen, Sercan Bulut · 2026
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Hasan Burak Isleyen and Sercan Bulut wrote a short letter, published in 2026, about how to read a heart scan result after a lung clot. They discuss a study by Farmakis and colleagues, who measured strain in the right side of the heart in 175 people who had survived a blood clot in the lungs. That study linked the scan measure, taken three months after the clot, to later poor outcomes over two years.
The letter argues that timing changes what the link means. Some patients may have already met the outcome terms at the three-month scan itself. In that case the scan shows harm that is already present, not harm still to come. The authors ask for the cases to be split into those already affected at three months and those affected later. That split would show whether the scan can truly predict new problems.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hasan Burak Isleyen, Sercan Bulut |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |