The emerging role of atrial strain assessed by cardiac MRI in different cardiovascular settings: an up-to-date review.

ABSTRACT: The left atrium (LA) has a crucial function in maintaining left ventricular filling, which is responsible for about one-third of all cardiac filling. A growing body of evidence shows that LA is involved in several cardiovascular diseases from a clinical and prognostic standpoint. LA enlargement has been recognized as a predictor of the outcomes of many diseases. However, LA enlargement itself does not explain the whole LA's function during the cardiac cycle. For this reason, the recently proposed assessment of atrial strain at advanced cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) enables the usual limitations of the sole LA volumetric measurement to be overcome. Moreover, the left atrial strain impairment might allow several cardiovascular diseases to be detected at an earlier stage. While traditional

SUBMITTER: Cau R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9213357 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature