Letter on "Left ventricular systolic function evaluated by strain echocardiography and relationship with mortality in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock: a systematic review and meta-analysis"

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Venu Velagapudi, Emory University; Dennis A. Tighe, University of Massachusetts
• Language: English
• Date: 2019-02-08
• Publisher: BMC
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © The Author(s). 2019
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-019-2312-1
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: CRITICAL CARE
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Start Page: 38
• End Page: 38
• Grant/Funding Information: None
• Keywords: Critical Care Medicine; Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; General & Internal Medicine
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery

Abstract

We followed with interest the study by Sanfilippo et al. [1], a meta-analysis of pooled observational studies of severe sepsis and/or septic shock. The authors included 794 patients stratified by survivors/non-survivor and showed that global longitudinal strain (GLS) measurements were strongly associated with survival (standard mean difference (SMD) − 0.26; 95% confidence interval (CI) − 0.47, − 0.04; p = 0.02).