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01-10-2019 | Cardiomyopathy | Original Paper

Biventricular myocardial strain analysis using cardiac magnetic resonance feature tracking (CMR-FT) in patients with distinct types of right ventricular diseases comparing arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), right ventricular outflow-tract tachycardia (RVOT-VT), and Brugada syndrome (BrS)

Authors: Philipp Heermann, H. Fritsch, M. Koopmann, P. Sporns, M. Paul, W. Heindel, E. Schulze-Bahr, C. Schülke

Published in: Clinical Research in Cardiology | Issue 10/2019

Abstract

Objectives

As underlying heart diseases of right ventricular tachyarrhythmias, ARVC causes wall-motion abnormalities based on fibrofatty myocardial degeneration, while RVOT-VT and BrS are thought to lack phenotypic MR characteristics. To examine whether cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) feature tracking (FT) in addition to ARVC objectively facilitates detection of myocardial functional impairments in RVOT-VT and BrS.

Methods

Cine MR datasets of four retrospectively enrolled, age-matched study groups [n = 65; 16 ARVC, 26 RVOT-VT, 9 BrS, 14 healthy volunteers (HV)] were independently assessed by two distinctly experienced investigators regarding myocardial function using CMR-FT. Global strain (%) and strainrate (s⁻¹) in radial and longitudinal orientation were assessed at RVOT as well as for left (LV) and right (RV) ventricle at a basal, medial and apical section with the addition of a biventricular circumferential orientation.

Results

RV longitudinal and radial basal strain (%) in ARVC (− 12.9 ± 4.2; 11.4 ± 5.1) were significantly impaired compared to RVOT-VT (− 18.0 ± 2.5, p ≤ 0.005; 16.4 ± 5.2, p ≤ 0.05). Synergistically, RVOT endocardial radial strain (%) in ARVC (33.8 ± 22.7) was significantly lower (p ≤ 0.05) than in RVOT-VT (54.3 ± 14.5). For differentiation against BrS, RV basal and medial radial strain values (%) (13.3 ± 6.1; 11.8 ± 2.9) were significantly reduced when compared to HV (21.0 ± 6.9, p ≤ 0.05; 20.1 ± 6.6, p ≤ 0.005), even in case of a normal RV ejection fraction (EF) (> 45%; n = 6) (12.0 ± 2.7 vs. 20.1 ± 6.6, p ≤ 0.05).

Conclusions

CMR-FT facilitates relevant differentiation in patients with right ventricular tachyarrhythmias: between ARVC against RVOT-VT and HV as well as between BrS with even a preserved EF against HV.

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Title: Biventricular myocardial strain analysis using cardiac magnetic resonance feature tracking (CMR-FT) in patients with distinct types of right ventricular diseases comparing arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), right ventricular outflow-tract tachycardia (RVOT-VT), and Brugada syndrome (BrS)
Authors: Philipp Heermann
H. Fritsch
M. Koopmann
P. Sporns
M. Paul
W. Heindel
E. Schulze-Bahr
C. Schülke
Publication date: 01-10-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Cardiomyopathy
Tachyarrythmia
Published in: Clinical Research in Cardiology / Issue 10/2019
Print ISSN: 1861-0684
Electronic ISSN: 1861-0692
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-019-01450-w

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