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Right Ventricular Volume and Function Assessment in Congenital Heart Disease Using CMR Compressed-Sensing Real-Time Cine Imaging.

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Background and objective

To evaluate the reliability of compressed-sensing (CS) real-time single-breath-hold cine imaging for quantification of right ventricular (RV) function and volumes in congenital heart disease (CHD) patients in comparison with the standard multi-breath-hold technique.

Methods

Sixty-one consecutive CHD patients (mean age = 22.2 ± 9.0 (SD) years) were prospectively evaluated during either the initial work-up or after repair. For each patient, two series of cine images were acquired: first, the reference segmented multi-breath-hold steady-state free-precession sequence (SSFP_ref), including a short-axis stack, one four-chamber slice, and one long-axis slice; then, an additional real-time compressed-sensing single-breath-hold sequence (CS_rt) providing the same slices. Two radiologists independently assessed the image quality and RV volumes for both techniques, which were compared using the Wilcoxon test and paired Student's t test, Bland-Altman, and linear regression analyses. The visualization of wall-motion disorders and tricuspid-regurgitation-related signal voids were also analyzed.

Results

The mean acquisition time for CS_rt was 22.4 ± 6.2 (SD) s (95% CI: 20.8-23.9 s) versus 442.2 ± 89.9 (SD) s (95% CI: 419.2-465.2 s) for SSFP_ref (p < 0.001). The image quality of CS_rt was diagnostic in all examinations and was mostly rated as good (n = 49/61; 80.3%). There was a high correlation between SSFP_ref and CS_rt images regarding RV ejection fraction (49.8 ± 7.8 (SD)% (95% CI: 47.8-51.8%) versus 48.7 ± 8.6 (SD)% (95% CI: 46.5-50.9%), respectively; r = 0.94) and RV end-diastolic volume (192.9 ± 60.1 (SD) mL (95% CI: 177.5-208.3 mL) versus 194.9 ± 62.1 (SD) mL (95% CI: 179.0-210.8 mL), respectively; r = 0.98). In CS_rt images, tricuspid-regurgitation and wall-motion disorder visualization was good (area under receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) = 0.87) and excellent (AUC = 1), respectively.

Conclusions

Compressed-sensing real-time cine imaging enables, in one breath hold, an accurate assessment of RV function and volumes in CHD patients in comparison with standard SSFP_ref, allowing a substantial improvement in time efficiency.

SUBMITTER: Longere B

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8125206 | biostudies-literature |

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