Does strain-encoded cardiovascular magnetic resonance (SENC) compare to 2D speckle tracking echocardiography for assessing infarct transmurality in myocardial infarction?
SENC and 2D speckle tracking echocardiography have similar but non-optimal accuracy for assessing infarct transmurality, highlighting the need for improved diagnostic tools.
Layer-specific analysis of myocardial deformation by Echo and by SENC allows discrimination between different transmurality categories of myocardial infarction with similar accuracy. However, accuracy of both methods is non-optimal, indicating that further tools for improvement should be evaluated in the future.
Altiok et al. (Mon,) studied this question.