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Does cardiac pacing impact left ventricular strain assessed by MR feature tracking in patients with MRI-conditional CIEDs compared to controls?
Does cardiac pacing impact left ventricular strain assessed by MR feature tracking in patients with MRI-conditional CIEDs compared to controls?
MR feature tracking is feasible for quantifying regional wall motion in patients with MRI-conditional CIEDs, demonstrating reduced radial and circumferential strain during pacing.
MR feature tracking detects pacing-related LV strain reduction in CIED patients; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical adoption.
PURPOSE: To develop feature tracking (FT) software to perform strain analysis on conventional (nontagged) cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) function images. With the advent of MRI-conditional pacemaker systems, effects of cardiac pacing on myocardial strain can be studied using MR. In this study the impact of pacing on left ventricular (LV) strain was investigated using MR-FT in patients with an MRI-conditional cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED). MATERIALS AND METHODS: FT was performed on 32 1.5T MR studies (16 patients with an MRI-conditional CIED and 16 control patients with normal scans). Short- and long-axis steady state free precession (SSFP) cines were used for the FT analysis. Strain was assessed using CVI(42) software (Circle Cardiovascular Imaging, Alberta, Canada). In addition, the intra- and interobserver variability was determined using the intraclass correlation coefficient. RESULTS: Of the 16 patients with an MRI-conditional CIED, five patients were paced during the MRI exam. Despite the occasional presence of susceptibility artifacts induced by the CIED, radial, circumferential, and longitudinal strain parameters could be derived for all patients. Peak radial strain and peak circumferential strain were reduced during pacing when compared to the control group; for radial strain: 20.1 ± 4.7% vs. 33.1 ± 6.9%, P < 0.001, and for circumferential strain -7.5 ± 3.5% vs. -14.9 ± 3.2%, P < 0.05. Peak strain parameters were reproducible on an intra- and interobserver level. CONCLUSION: MR-FT is feasible in patients with an MRI-conditional CIED and can be used to quantify regional wall motion. J. MAGN. RESON. IMAGING 2016;44:964-971.
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