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Identifying patients with mitral valve prolapse at high arrhythmic risk remains challenging, and CMR feature tracking may improve risk stratification.
Do Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) feature tracking (FT) parameters predict complex ventricular arrhythmias in patients with mitral valve prolapse and mitral annular disjunction?
Do Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) feature tracking (FT) parameters predict complex ventricular arrhythmias in patients with mitral valve prolapse and mitral annular disjunction?
CMR feature tracking parameters, specifically reduced global and regional longitudinal strain, independently predict the presence of complex ventricular arrhythmias in patients with mitral valve prolapse and mitral annular disjunction.
May inform cVA risk stratification in MVP/MAD; leaves open prospective validation before clinical adoption.
OBJECTIVES: The identification of patients with mitral valve prolapse (MVP) presenting high arrhythmic risk remains challenging. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) feature tracking (FT) may improve risk stratification. We analyzed the role of CMR-FT parameters in relation to the incidence of complex ventricular arrhythmias (cVA) in patients with MVP and mitral annular disjunction (MAD). METHODS: 42 patients with MVP and MAD who underwent 1.5 T CMR were classified as MAD-cVA (n = 23, 55%) in case of cVA diagnosed on a 24-h Holter monitoring and as MAD-noVA in the absence of cVA (n = 19, 45%). MAD length, late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), basal segments myocardial extracellular volume (ECV) and CMR-FT were assessed. RESULTS: LGE was more frequent in the MAD-cVA group in comparison with the MAD-noVA group (78% vs 42%, p = 0.002) while no difference was observed in terms of basal ECV. Global longitudinal strain (GLS) was reduced in MAD-cVA compared to MAD-noVA (- 18.2% ± 4.6% vs - 25.1% ± 3.1%, p = 0.004) as well as global circumferential strain (GCS) at the mid-ventricular level (- 17.5% ± 4.7% vs - 21.6% ± 3.1%, p = 0.041). Univariate analysis identified as predictors of the incidence of cVA: GCS, circumferential strain (CS) in the basal and mid infero-lateral wall, GLS, regional longitudinal strain (LS) in the basal and mid-ventricular inferolateral wall. Reduced GLS [Odd ratio (OR):1.56 (confidence interval (CI) 95%: 1.45-2.47; p < 0.001)] and regional LS in the basal inferolateral wall [OR: 1.62 (CI 95%: 1.22-2.13; p < 0.001)] remained independent prognostic factors in multivariate analysis. CONCLUSION: In patients with MVP and MAD, CMR-FT parameters are correlated with the incidence of cVA and may be of interest in arrhythmic risk stratification.
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