Key result
Noninvasive LV vortex formation time provides clinical insights for valvular heart disease and heart failure.
Why the study?
Vortex formation during left ventricular diastolic filling may provide useful clinical insights, leading to growing interest in measuring vortex formation time noninvasively across various cardiac conditions.
Vortex formation time is an emerging noninvasive parameter that may provide insights into cardiac health and disease processes such as heart failure and valvular disease.
Vortex formation during left ventricular diastolic filling may provide clinically useful insights into cardiac health. In recent years, there has been growing interest in the measurement of vortex formation time (VFT), especially because it is derived noninvasively. There are important applications of VFT in valvular heart disease, athletic physiology, heart failure and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The formation of the vortex as fluid propagates into the left ventricle from the left atrium is important for efficient fluid transport. Quantifying VFT may thus help in evaluating and understanding disease and pathophysiological processes.
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Ngiam et al. (2023) conducted a review in Valvular heart disease, heart failure, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Vortex formation time (VFT) measurement was evaluated. Noninvasive measurement of left ventricular vortex formation time (VFT) provides clinically useful insights into cardiac health, with applications in valvular heart disease and heart failure.
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