Ventricular structure in ARVC: going beyond volumes as a measure of risk.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Altered right ventricular structure is an important feature of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC), but is challenging to quantify objectively. The aim of this study was to go beyond ventricular volumes and diameters and to explore if the shape of the right and left ventricles could be assessed and related to clinical measures. We used quantifiable computational methods to automatically identify and analyse malformations in ARVC patients from Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) images. Furthermore, we investigated how automatically extracted structural features were related to arrhythmic events.

Methods

A retrospective cross-sectional feasibility study was performed on CMR short axis cine images of 27 ARVC patients and 21 ageing asymptomatic

SUBMITTER: McLeod K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5069945 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature