Cardiothoracic Morphology Measures in Heart Failure Patients to Inform Device Designs.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Approximately 5.7 million people in the US are affected by congestive heart failure. This study aimed to quantitatively evaluate cardiothoracic morphology and variability within a cohort of heart failure patients for the purpose of optimally engineering cardiac devices for a variety of heart failure patients.

Methods

Co-registered cardiac-gated and non-gated chest computed tomography (CT) scans were analyzed from 20 heart failure patients (12 males; 8 females) who were primarily older adults (79.5 ± 8.8 years). Twelve cardiothoracic measurements were collected and compared to study sex and left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) type differences in cardiothoracic morphology.

Results

Four measures were significantly greater in males compared to females: LV

SUBMITTER: Saffarzadeh M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6868344 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature