• Int J Cardiovasc Imaging · Oct 2014

    Evaluation of global circumferential strain as prognostic marker after administration of β-blockers for dilated cardiomyopathy.

    • Hidekazu Tanaka, Kensuke Matsumoto, Takuma Sawa, Tatsuya Miyoshi, Yoshiki Motoji, Junichi Imanishi, Yasuhide Mochizuki, Kazuhiro Tatsumi, and Ken-Ichi Hirata.
    • Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650-0017, Japan, tanakah@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.
    • Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Oct 1; 30 (7): 1279-87.

    AbstractThe use of β-blockers has improved the prognosis of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and the appearance of left ventricular (LV) reverse remodeling is generally thought to result in a more favorable prognosis. While there are many prognostic predictors, not all of them are applicable to individual patients. Global circumferential strain (GCS) was identified as a powerful prognostic marker, which appears to be a better parameter than LV global function for patients with depressed left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction. Seventy consecutive patients with newly-diagnosed DCM with LVEF of 28 ± 8 % (all <45 %) were retrospectively recruited. Either carvedilol or bisoprolol was titrated to a dose that was tolerable for each of the patients. GCS was determined as the peak global speckle-tracking circumferential strain from the mid-LV short-axis view. LV reverse remodeling was defined as an absolute increase in LVEF of at least 10 % during 8.1 ± 5.2-month follow-up after initiation of the maintenance dose of β-blockers. GCS ≥ 5.4 % was identified as the best predictor of LV reverse remodeling with 91 % sensitivity and 82 % specificity, and an area under the curve of 0.896 (p < 0.0001). An important finding of multivariate logistic regression analysis was that GCS was the best independent predictor of LV reverse remodeling (OR 7.692; 95 % CI 2.292-25.82; p = 0.001). It should be noted that only 1.3 ± 0.4 min per patient was needed to analyze GCS. In conclusions, GCS could result in further improvements in predicting LV reverse remodeling after β-blocker administration, and have clinical implications for better management in daily clinical practice.

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