Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
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J Cardiovasc Magn Reson · Jun 2020
Comparative StudyCardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking for characterization of patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: correlation of global longitudinal strain with invasive diastolic functional indices.
Left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction is the main cause of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), and is characterized by LV stiffness and relaxation. Abnormal LV global longitudinal strain (GLS) is frequently observed l in HFpEF, and was shown to be useful in identifying HFpEF patients at high risk for a cardiovascular event. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) feature tracking (CMR-FT) enables the reproducible and non-invasive assessment of global strain from cine CMR images. However, the association between GLS and invasively measured parameters of diastolic function has not been investigated. We sought to determine the prevalence and severity of GLS impairment in patients with HFpEF by using CMR-FT, and to evaluate the correlation between GLS measured by CMR-FT and that measured by invasive diastolic functional indices. ⋯ CMR-FT is a noninvasive approach that enables identification of the subgroup of HFpEF patients with impaired GLS. CMR LV GLS independently predicts abnormal invasive LV relaxation index Tau measurements in HFpEF patients. These findings suggest that feature-tracking CMR analysis in conjunction with ECV, may enable evaluation of diastolic dysfunction in patients with HFpEF.