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Rapid assessment of longitudinal systolic left ventricular function using speckle tracking of the mitral annulus

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Abstract

Background

Evaluation of left ventricular function (LV) is one of the most important tasks of echocardiography. Left ventricular longitudinal function has been recognized to differentiate myocardial disorders better than ejection fraction (EF) alone. But recent parameters are still dependent on image quality and time consuming.

Methods

Transthoracic echocardiography, tissue Doppler imaging, strain imaging and assessment of longitudinal function with a tissue motion annular displacement (TMAD) tracking algorithm were performed in 152 patients with various cardiac pathologies and 47 healthy volunteers in a clinical routine setting.

Results

Measures of longitudinal function such as LV peak systolic strain (SR, r² = 0.88, p < 0.001) and peak systolic strain rate (SRR, r² = 0.78, p < 0.001) correlated highly with TMAD. Tissue motion annular displacement was ultrafast and less time-consuming compared to strain imaging (8.2 ± 2.2 s, p < 0.001). Significantly more patients with reduced image quality could be analyzed compared to strain imaging (p < 0.001). The intra- and inter-observer variabilities were very low with 1.3 ± 1% and 1.7 ± 1.2%. Tissue motion annular displacement correlated well with clinical parameters (NYHA, r = −0.71, p < 0.001) as well as NT-proBNP (r = −0.73, p < 0.001) and identified patients with structural heart disease with a significantly higher sensitivity 92.1% and specificity 95.7% than did EF, SR, SRR or NT-proBNP (Cut-off:14.2%, p < 0.01). In a subgroup of patients with systemic light chain amyloidosis and preserved EF (>50%, n = 54), TMAD was significantly reduced, especially in those without any signs of cardiac involvement and was superior to other parameters of longitudinal function (p < 0.05).

Conclusions

Tissue motion annular displacement is a rapid, sensitive and reproducible method for the assessment of LV longitudinal function, which is less dependent on image quality.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, University of Heidelberg, INF 410, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Derliz Mereles, Mostafa Emami, Grigorios Korosoglou, Johannes H. Riffel, Diane Bertel, Hugo A. Katus & Stefan E. Hardt

  2. Department of Hematology and Oncology, University of Heidelberg, INF 410, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Stefan O. Schonland & Ute Hegenbart

  3. Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Sebastian J. Buss

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Buss, S.J., Mereles, D., Emami, M. et al. Rapid assessment of longitudinal systolic left ventricular function using speckle tracking of the mitral annulus. Clin Res Cardiol 101, 273–280 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-011-0389-x

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