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Imaging predictors of response to cardiac resynchronization therapy: left ventricular work asymmetry by echocardiography and septal viability by cardiac magnetic resonance.


ABSTRACT:

Aims

Left ventricular (LV) failure in left bundle branch block is caused by loss of septal function and compensatory hyperfunction of the LV lateral wall (LW) which stimulates adverse remodelling. This study investigates if septal and LW function measured as myocardial work, alone and combined with assessment of septal viability, identifies responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT).

Methods and results

In a prospective multicentre study of 200 CRT recipients, myocardial work was measured by pressure-strain analysis and viability by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging (n = 125). CRT response was defined as ≥15% reduction in LV end-systolic volume after 6 months. Before CRT, septal work was markedly lower than LW work (P < 0.0001), and the difference was largest in CRT responders (P < 0.001). Work difference between septum and LW predicted CRT response with area under the curve (AUC) 0.77 (95% CI: 0.70-0.84) and was feasible in 98% of patients. In patients undergoing CMR, combining work difference and septal viability significantly increased AUC to 0.88 (95% CI: 0.81-0.95). This was superior to the predictive power of QRS morphology, QRS duration and the echocardiographic parameters septal flash, apical rocking, and systolic stretch index. Accuracy was similar for the subgroup of patients with QRS 120-150 ms as for the entire study group. Both work difference alone and work difference combined with septal viability predicted long-term survival without heart transplantation with hazard ratio 0.36 (95% CI: 0.18-0.74) and 0.21 (95% CI: 0.072-0.61), respectively.

Conclusion

Assessment of myocardial work and septal viability identified CRT responders with high accuracy.

SUBMITTER: Aalen JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7599033 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Imaging predictors of response to cardiac resynchronization therapy: left ventricular work asymmetry by echocardiography and septal viability by cardiac magnetic resonance.

Aalen John M JM   Donal Erwan E   Larsen Camilla K CK   Duchenne Jürgen J   Lederlin Mathieu M   Cvijic Marta M   Hubert Arnaud A   Voros Gabor G   Leclercq Christophe C   Bogaert Jan J   Hopp Einar E   Fjeld Jan Gunnar JG   Penicka Martin M   Linde Cecilia C   Aalen Odd O OO   Kongsgård Erik E   Galli Elena E   Voigt Jens-Uwe JU   Smiseth Otto A OA  

European heart journal 20201001 39


<h4>Aims</h4>Left ventricular (LV) failure in left bundle branch block is caused by loss of septal function and compensatory hyperfunction of the LV lateral wall (LW) which stimulates adverse remodelling. This study investigates if septal and LW function measured as myocardial work, alone and combined with assessment of septal viability, identifies responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT).<h4>Methods and results</h4>In a prospective multicentre study of 200 CRT recipients, myocardia  ...[more]

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