231Global myocardial longitudinal strain by feature tracking cardiac magnetic resonance does not influence the prognosis of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

Background: Pulmonary transit time (PTT) from first-pass perfusion imaging is a novel parameter to evaluate hemodynamic congestion by cardiac magnetic resonance (cMR). We sought to evaluate the additional prognostic value of PTT in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction over other well-validated predictors of risk including the Meta-Analysis Global Group in Chronic Heart Failure risk score and ischemic cause. Methods: We prospectively followed 410 patients with chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (61±13 years, left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction 24±7%) who underwent a clinical cMR to assess the prognostic value of PTT for a primary endpoint of overall mortality and secondary composite endpoint of cardiovascular death and heart failure hospitalization. Normal reference values of PTT were evaluated in a population of 40 asymptomatic volunteers free of cardiovascular disease. Results PTT was significantly increased in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction as compared to controls (9±6 beats and 7±2 beats, respectively, P <0.001), and correlated not only with New York Heart Association class, cMR–LV and cMR–right ventricular (RV) volumes, cMR-RV and cMR-LV ejection fraction, and feature tracking global longitudinal strain, but also with cardiac output. Over 6-year median follow-up, 182 patients died and 200 reached the secondary endpoint. By multivariate Cox analysis, PTT was an independent and significant predictor of both endpoints after adjustment for Meta-Analysis Global Group in Chronic Heart Failure risk score and ischemic cause. Importantly in multivariable analysis, PTT in beats had significantly higher additional prognostic value to predict not only overall mortality (χ 2 to improve, 12.3; hazard ratio, 1.35 [95% CI, 1.16–1.58]; P <0.001) but also the secondary composite endpoints (χ 2 to improve=20.1; hazard ratio, 1.23 [95% CI, 1.21–1.60]; P <0.001) than cMR-LV ejection fraction, cMR-RV ejection fraction, LV–feature tracking global longitudinal strain, or RV–feature tracking global longitudinal strain. Importantly, PTT was independent and complementary to both pulmonary artery pressure and reduced RV ejection fraction<42% to predict overall mortality and secondary combined endpoints. Conclusions: Despite limitations in temporal resolution, PTT derived from first-pass perfusion imaging provides higher and independent prognostic information in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction than clinical and other cMR parameters, including LV and RV ejection fraction or feature tracking global longitudinal strain. Registration: URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov ; Unique identifier: NCT03969394.

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3225Global longitudinal strain measured using feature-tracking cardiac magnetic resonance imaging is an independent predictor of all cause mortality in patients with preserved ejection fraction

European Heart Journal ◽

10.1093/eurheartj/ehz745.0044 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (Supplement_1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

S Romano ◽

R Judd ◽

R Kim ◽

J Heitner ◽

D Shah ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance ◽

Magnetic Resonance ◽

Ejection Fraction ◽

Feature Tracking ◽

Prognostic Value ◽

Longitudinal Strain ◽

Independent Predictor ◽

Regression Modeling ◽

Preserved Ejection Fraction

Abstract Introduction Ejection fraction is the principal measure used clinically to assess cardiac mechanics and provides significant prognostic information. However, echocardiographic strain imaging has shown significant abnormalities of myocardial deformation can be present despite preserved ejection fraction, which maybe associated with adverse prognosis. Cardiac-Magnetic-Resonance (CMR) feature-tracking techniques now allow assessment of strain from routine cine-images, without specialized pulse sequences. Whether abnormalities of strain measured using CMR feature-tracking have prognostic value in patients with preserved ejection fraction is unknown. Purpose To evaluate the prognostic value of CMR feature-tracking derived global longitudinal strain (GLS) in a large multicenter population of patients with preserved ejection fraction. Methods Consecutive patients with preserved ejection fraction (EF ≥50%) and a clinical indication for CMR at four US medical centers were included in this study. Feature-tracking GLS was calculated from 3 long-axis-cine-views. The primary endpoint was all-cause death. Cox proportional hazards regression modeling was used to examine the independent association between GLS and death. The incremental prognostic value of GLS was assessed in nested models. Results Of the 1274 patients in this study, 115 died during a median follow-up of 6.2 years. By Kaplan-Meier analysis, patients with GLS ≥ median (−20%) had significantly reduced event free survival compared to those with GLS < median (log-rank p<0.001) (Figure, top panel). The continuous relationship between GLS and the hazard of death is shown in the cubic spline (Figure, lower panel). By Cox multivariable regression modeling, each 1% worsening in GLS was associated with a 23.6% increased risk-of-death after adjustment for clinical and imaging risk factors (HR=1.236 per %; p<0.001). Addition of GLS in this model resulted in significant-improvement in the global-chi-square (67 to 168; p<0.0001) and Harrel's C-statistic (0.716 to 0.825; p<0.0001). Conclusions CMR feature-tracking derived GLS is a powerful independent predictor of mortality in patients with preserved ejection fraction, incremental to common clinical and imaging risk factors.

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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Postcontrast T1 Time Is Associated With Outcome in Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction

Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging ◽

10.1161/circimaging.113.000633 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. 1056-1065 ◽

Cited By ~ 109

Author(s):

Julia Mascherbauer ◽

Beatrice A. Marzluf ◽

Caroline Tufaro ◽

Stefan Pfaffenberger ◽

Alexandra Graf ◽

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Keyword(s):

Heart Failure ◽

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance ◽

Magnetic Resonance ◽

Ejection Fraction ◽

Preserved Ejection Fraction ◽

Patients With Heart Failure

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Comparing cardiovascular magnetic resonance strain software packages by their abilities to discriminate outcomes in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance ◽

10.1186/s12968-021-00747-y ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ying Zhang ◽

David Mui ◽

Julio A. Chirinos ◽

Payman Zamani ◽

Victor A. Ferrari ◽

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Keyword(s):

Heart Failure ◽

Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance ◽

Magnetic Resonance ◽

Ejection Fraction ◽

Feature Tracking ◽

Preserved Ejection Fraction ◽

Post Processing ◽

Software Packages ◽

Patients With Heart Failure ◽

Processing Software

Abstract Background Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) myocardial strain analysis using feature tracking (FT) is an increasingly popular method to assess cardiac function. However, different software packages produce different strain values from the same images and there is little guidance regarding which software package would be the best to use. We explored a framework under which different software packages could be compared and used based on their abilities to differentiate disease from health and differentiate disease severity based on outcome. Method To illustrate this concept, we compared 4-chamber left ventricular (LV) peak longitudinal strain (GLS) analyzed from retrospective electrocardiogram gated cine imaging performed on 1.5 T CMR scanners using three CMR post-processing software packages in their abilities to discriminate a group of 45 patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) from 26 controls without cardiovascular disease and to discriminate disease severity based on outcomes. The three different post-processing software used were SuiteHeart, cvi42, and DRA-Trufistrain. Results All three software packages were able to distinguish HFpEF patients from controls. 4-chamber peak GLS by SuiteHeart was shown to be a better discriminator of adverse outcomes in HFpEF patients than 4-chamber GLS derived from cvi42 or DRA-Trufistrain. Conclusion We illustrated a framework to compare feature tracking GLS derived from different post-processing software packages. Publicly available imaging data sets with outcomes would be important to validate the growing number of CMR-FT software packages.

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P364 The first prospective study of non-compaction cardiomyopathy patients with preserved ejection fraction using cardiac magnetic resonance feature tracking

European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging ◽

10.1093/ehjci/jez319.213 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (Supplement_1) ◽

Author(s):

A Kiss ◽

A Szucs ◽

A Furak ◽

Z S Gregor ◽

M Horvath ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance ◽

Magnetic Resonance ◽

Ejection Fraction ◽

Feature Tracking ◽

Longitudinal Strain ◽

Apical Part ◽

Left Ventricular ◽

Functional Parameters ◽

Significant Difference

Abstract Feature tracking (FT) is a new cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) technique for strain measurement to reveal changes e.g. in noncompaction cardiomyopathy (NCMP) patients with good ejection fraction (EF). Our aim was to describe, first in the literature, the functional and CMR-FT strain values of NCMP patients with good EF and to compare them with their previous scans taken 4 years ago. At the Heart and Vascular Center of Semmelweis University 6743 CMR examinations were done between 2009-2015 and 232 NCMP patients were diagnosed. We followed up 27 patients, who had a previous examination at least 4 years ago, had no co-morbidities and whoes EF were above 50% (mean age: 37 ± 14.4 years, 18 males, mean follow up: 5.7 ± 1.5 years). Their parameters were compared to a matched control (C) group. The Medis Suite software was used for analysis, the MedCalc software for statistics, (p < 0.05). We compared the patient’s previous (PREV) and recent (REC) functional parameters but did not find significant changes. Comparing the global longitudinal and global circumferential strains (GLS, GCS) and rotation (R) no difference was found between the PREV and the REC values. The GCS showed significant difference between NCMP and C groups (-30.2 ± 5.0 vs -35.9 ± 4.5; p < 0.0001). We compared the segmental longitudinal and circumferential strain values of PREV vs. REC groups and NCMP vs C groups and found significant differences just in a few segments. The left ventricular (LV) apical part’s mean longitudinal strain value showed significant decrease on the REC scans compared to the PREV (PREV vs REC: -24.4 ± 7.7 vs -20.6 ± 5.1%; p < 0.05) and a non-significant decrease compared to the C (C vs REC: -22.8 ± 7.5 vs -20.6 ± 5.1%; p= n.s.). The ratio of the average longitudinal strain value of the apical and basal part of the left ventricle was significantly smaller in the REC group compared to the PREV but did not differ from the C subjects ( PREV vs. REC: 1.5 ± 0.8 vs 1.0 ±0.3; C vs REC: 1.5 ± 0.3 vs 1.2 ± 0.5; p < 0.05) We did not find worsening in the functional parameters of NCMP patients with good EF by the end of the follow up period. However, subclinical changes can be detected in the affected apical part of LV when using FT suggesting the need for follow up.

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131Left atrial phasic function in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: cardiac magnetic resonance myocardial feature tracking, invasive hemodynamics and outcome

European Heart Journal ◽

10.1093/eurheartj/ehz747.0047 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (Supplement_1) ◽

Author(s):

R Schoenbauer ◽

A A Kammerlander ◽

F Duca ◽

S Aschauer ◽

C Binder ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Heart Failure ◽

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance ◽

Magnetic Resonance ◽

Ejection Fraction ◽

Sinus Rhythm ◽

Feature Tracking ◽

Preserved Ejection Fraction ◽

Booster Pump ◽

And Function ◽

Conduit Function

Abstract Background Global left atrial (LA) size and function have been shown to be associated with adverse events in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). The machanism of coupling from left heart failure to pulmonary circulation is still controversially discussed. Purpose To study the prognostic most relevant determinant of LA size and function and its backward and forward interplay. Methods 188 HFpEF patients were prospectively enrolled and underwent baseline clinical assessment, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) and invasive hemodynamic assessment. Coronary artery disease was ruled out by coronary angiography. 92 patients were in atrial fibrillation (AF), 96 in sinus rhythm. LA size and function were assessed by CMR including LA strain imaging by myocardial feature tracking (Figure 1A & B). Results Patients in AF had more pronounced dilatation of all phasic LA volumes and reduction of all phasic LA functions when compared to sinus rhythm (each p<0.001 respectively). After 31 (9–57) months 66 patients reached the combined endpoint defined as combination from hospitalization due to heart failure and cardiovascular death. In AF no atrial functional or volume parameter was correlated to outcome. In contrast in sinus rhythm several phasic LA volume and functional parameters were associated with outcome. After multivariate cox regression analysis only reduced total LA ejection fraction and conduit strain rate were still predictive for worse outcome (p=0.031 and <0.001 respectively). After adjustment for known risk factors in HFpEF like age, six minute walking distance (6MWD), systolic pulmonary artery pressure (sPAP) and right ventricular ejection fraction as derived by CMR only impaired LA conduit strain rate remained predicitve for cardiovascular events (p=0.001). In contrast to LA booster pump function LA conduit function parameters were significantly correlated to reduced 6MWD (Figure 1C) and coupled backwards to pulmonary vasculature via correlation to sPAP and pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) but without coupling to CMR derived elevated LV extracellular volume and left ventricular end diastolic pressure. Conclusion Total LA ejection fraction plays a key role in the prognosis of HFpEF. This effect seems to be mainly related to its LA conduit function but not to LA booster pump function. LA conduit function correlates to impaired 6MWD, sPAP and PVR.

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