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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Abbreviations
- ARVC:
-
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
- AUC:
-
Area under curve
- BrS:
-
Brugada syndrome
- CMR:
-
Cardiac magnetic resonance
- DSC-2:
-
Desmocolin-2
- DSG-2:
-
Desmoglein-2
- EF:
-
Ejection fraction
- FT:
-
Feature tracking
- LV:
-
Left ventricle left ventricular
- LVEDVI:
-
Left ventricular end diastolic volume index
- LVEF:
-
Left ventricular ejection fraction
- LVESVI:
-
Left ventricular end systolic volume index
- PKP-2:
-
Plakophillin-2
- ROC:
-
Receiver operating curve
- RV:
-
Right ventricle/right ventricular
- RVEDVI:
-
Right ventricular end diastolic volume index
- RVEF:
-
Right ventricular ejection fraction
- RVESVI:
-
Right ventricular end systolic volume index
- RVOT:
-
Right ventricular outflow tract
- RVOT-VT:
-
Right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia
- SA:
-
Short axis
- SCD:
-
Sudden cardiac death
- SCN5A:
-
Ion channel mutation in Brugada syndrome
- SD:
-
Standard deviation
- TFS:
-
Task Force Score
- WMA:
-
Wall-motion abnormalities
- 4 CH:
-
Four chamber
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WH, ESB and PH initiated the study concept. PH is the corresponding author of the manuscript. PH and HF participated in the myocardial strain analysis. PH and CS participated in the statistical analysis and PH and CS drafted the manuscript. WH, ESB, MP, HF, MK and PS contributed valuable comments and formulations. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Heermann, P., Fritsch, H., Koopmann, M. et al. 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). Clin Res Cardiol 108, 1147–1162 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-019-01450-w
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