Incremental prognostic value of left atrial strain in patients with heart failure.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The present study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of atrial strain and strain rate (SR) parameters derived from cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) feature tracking (FT) in patients with ischaemic and non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) but without atrial fibrillation.

Methods and results

A total of 300 patients who underwent CMR with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤ 40% and ischaemic or non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy were analysed in this retrospective study. Major adverse cardiac events (MACEs) include cardiovascular death, heart transplantation, and rehospitalization for worsening HF. Ninety-four patients had MACEs during median follow-up of 3.84 years. Multivariate Cox regression models

SUBMITTER: Bo K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9773762 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature