Receiving a heart transplant is a life-changing journey, and you may be wondering about your treatment options. This is why The Heart Hub is excited to introduce A Hearts Journey: A Patient & Caregiver Guide to Heart Transplant. This brand-new, interactive...
On March 5, 2025, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) received a significant breakthrough in pediatric research with an $11.7 million award from Genome Canada. As part of the Canadian Precision Health Initiative, a total of $81 million in...
After eight transformative years at the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research (TRCHR), Dr. Soror Sharifpoor is embarking on an exciting new chapter in her career. As the Director of Strategy & Translation at the Translational Biology and Engineering Program (TBEP)...
With a mission to support novel approaches to managing and preventing heart failure, the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research uses its Innovation Fund to propel emerging research with great potential. The 2024-25 Innovation Fund Seed Grants are currently open and you...
The Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research is delighted to welcome Iris Cohn as the new Innovator in Genomic Translation - also recently promoted to Director of the Pharmacogenetics (PGx) Program at The Hospital for Sick Children. A trained pharmacist, Iris established...
NorthMiRs Inc., an innovative cardiovascular biotech start-up, has won $250,000 in funding from the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research’s Entrepreneurship for Cardiovascular Health Opportunities (ECHO) PITCH 2024 competition. Since its launch in 2018, the ECHO...
3D models of heart failure… stiffened hearts in diabetes…. saving infant lives
After a heart attack, this peptide protects the heart from further injury
Featured Event
ECHO PITCH 2024
Virtual Library
Visit our YouTube channel filled with world-class heart failure educational sessions on diverse topics
Investigating Heart Failure
Personalized Medicine
Equitable Access to Care
Translating Innovation
For Patients
For Clinicians
For Researchers
Strain Measurement Activity
From this learning activity you will:
Have access to echocardiography images in patients receiving cancer therapy to measure global longitudinal strain (GLS).
Be able to analyze the cases and send it back for expert review and feedback (personalized).
Have the ability to compare your diagnosis of cardiotoxicity based on an external reference standard and clinical information.
Use the personalized feedback to analyze a second set of cases to assess improvement in accuracy.
This activity has been made available for informational and educational purposes only. The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
STEP 1:
Please read the following documents prior to beginning the learning activity:
For EchoInsight: a step-by-step guide for analyzing strain will be provided from Epsilon once you have signed up with EchoInsight.
For GE, Philips and Tomtec: please watch Supplemental Videos 1, 6, 10, 12, 13 at the link below which provide step-by-step instructions as to how to analyze strain this software:
Once you have completed Step 1, please fill out the form below.
For EchoInsight, software and cases are available online for participants to access from anywhere, no download required. Upon submitting the below form, you will be redirected to a page to sign up with your email. You will soon thereafter be contacted with the login and analysis instructions.For GE, upon submitting the form below, you will be redirected to a page to download 1) the strain case studies, 2) the cases import and export instructions, and 3) the strain data capture excel file. You will also receive an email containing the link to upload your analysis. We will not be able to provide you with personalized feedback without this.
Note:
Some of the cases were diagnosed with cardiotoxicity while others were not.
Two relevant time points during cancer therapy were chosen. These time points will be discussed during feedback.
We recommend that you use the latest version of Chrome or Firefox for the best experience. * EchoInsight software and cases are available online, no download required. GE cases will require the use of participants’ local strain analysis software.