Speckle Tracking in Pediatric Patients
Completed
Conditions studied: Cardiomyopathy
In brief
An echocardiogram, also called a cardiac ultrasound or echo, is a medical test that takes pictures of the heart using sound waves. It shows images of the structures of the heart without using radiation. During the last year, the FDA has approved a new technology called Speckle Tracking that can look at the heart wall motion and contraction (pumping or squeezing) abnormalities. The study will also employ tissue Doppler and 3-Dimensional echo and uses the same echocardiographic machines which are used right now. The machines are upgraded with the new software application. This new technology is currently being used in adults, but unfortunately, there is almost no published data about normal heart function in infants and children using this technology. It is known from other technologies that the developing child's heart is not the same as an adult. The investigators wish to study this new technology and compare it to other technologies currently being used.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00489957
- Run by
- Emory University
- People needed
- 70
- Starts
- 2007-03-01
- Expected to finish
- 2009-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2013-11-27
Who can join
Age: 0 and older, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Healthy Volunteers
- No known heart disease
- Age of birth to 17 years.
- Patients will be compared to age appropriate controls.
- Stable clinical condition
- Able and willing to sign informed assent (where appropriate) and consent
- Study Group
- Suspected or known heart muscle dysfunction or cardiomyopathy.
- Age of birth to 17 years
- Stable clinical condition
- Able and willing to sign informed assent (where appropriate) and consent
You may not qualify if…
- Patients who do not have structurally normal left ventricles, have unstable or irregular heart rhythms.
- Patients not in stable clinical condition
- Unable or unwilling to sign informed consent and/or assent.
Where it is running
- Emory University — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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