Micro-RNA-21 (biomarker) and global longitudinal strain (functional marker) in detection of myocardial fibrotic burden in severe aortic valve stenosis: a pilot study

Table 3 Speckle tracking and tissue data

	Mean	SD
Speckle tracking
GLS %	−14.02	3.88

	Mean/median*	SD/min–max**
Septal speckle tracking and tissue data (septum)
SL-Sr (1/sec)	−0.58	0.17
SL-SrE (1/sec)	0.62	0.32
SSL (%)	−9.63	2.97
MF % (n.23)	18.45*	5.13–98.0**
miRNA-21 myocardial expression/myocardial area (n.20)	0.416*	0.05–1.53**
miRNA-21 fibrotic/fibrotic area (n.20)	4.041*	0.57–22.27**

GLS global longitudinal strain, MF myocardial fibrosis, miRNA micro-RNA, SL-Sr septal systolic strain rate, SL-SrE septal early-diastolic strain rate, SSL septal longitudinal strain

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