Dr. Lamia Khaled Al Saikhan

Publications

2025

• Deep spatiotemporal clutter filtering of transthoracic echocardiographic images: Leveraging contextual attention and residual learning.
• Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation in Reducing Pain and Improving Quality of Life and Job Satisfaction Among Cardiac Sonographers with Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  
• Clutter Suppression in 3D in-vivo Medical Ultrasound Using In-Face Extended Frank-Wolfe Method.
  
• Job satisfaction, work commitment, and intention to leave among cardiac technologists in Saudi Arabia.
• Cohort profile: characterisation, determinants, mechanisms and consequences of the long-term effects of COVID-19 - providing the evidence base for health care services (CONVALESCENCE) in the UK.

2024

• Role of echocardiography-derived pulmonary to systemic flow ratio in diagnosing aortopulmonary window: A case report. Electronic Journal of General Medicine
• Adulthood adiposity affects cardiac structure and function in later life
• Prevalence and Burden of Musculoskeletal Pain among Cardiac Sonographers in Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study. 
• Mechanisms underlying exercise intolerance in long COVID: An accumulation of multisystem dysfunction.  

2023

• Occupational survey of the educational outputs of the first established program of cardiac technology speciality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2013–2022): A cross-sectional study.
• Does 3D-speckle tracking echocardiography improve prediction of major cardiovascular events in a multi-ethnic general population? A Southall and Brent Revisited (SABRE) cohort study.
• Prevalence, characteristics, consequences, and awareness of work-related musculoskeletal pain among cardiac sonographers compared with other healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia: A cross sectional study.  
• Sex-differences in associations of LV structure and function measured by echocardiography with long-term risk of mortality and cardiovascular morbidity.
• A systematic review and meta-analysis of heart rate variability in COPD. 

2022

• Association between carotid atherosclerosis and brain activation patterns during the Stroop task in older adults: An fNIRS investigation. 
• Relationship Between Image Quality and Bias in 3D Echocardiographic Measures: Data From the SABRE (Southall and Brent Revisited) Study. 
• Is carotid artery atherosclerosis associated with poor cognitive function assessed using the Mini-Mental State Examination? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

2021

• Corrigendum: Imaging Protocol, Feasibility, and Reproducibility of Cardiovascular Phenotyping in a Large Tri-Ethnic Population-Based Study of Older People: The Southall and Brent Revisited (SABRE) Study.

2020

• Imaging Protocol, Feasibility, and Reproducibility of Cardiovascular Phenotyping in a Large Tri-Ethnic Population-Based Study of Older People: The Southall and Brent Revisited (SABRE) Study. 
• Cohort Profile Update: Southall and Brent Revisited (SABRE) study: a UK population-based comparison of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in people of European, South Asian and African Caribbean heritage.
• Study Protocol - Insight 46 Cardiovascular: A Sub-study of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development.

2019

• Reproducibility of Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony Indices by Three-Dimensional Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography: The Impact of Sub-optimal Image Quality.
• Left atrial function in heart failure with mid-range ejection fraction differs from that of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a 2D speckle-tracking echocardiographic study.
• Prognostic implications of left ventricular strain by speckle-tracking echocardiography in the general population: a meta-analysis.

2018

• Prognostic implications of left ventricular strain by speckle-tracking echocardiography in population-based studies: a systematic review protocol of the published literature. 
• Correlation between ST segment shift and cardiac diastolic function in patients with acute myocardial infarction.