Usefulness of addition of magnetic resonance imaging to echocardiographic imaging to predict left ventricular reverse remodeling in patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy
The American Journal of Cardiology May 28, 2018
Merlo M, et al. - Researchers investigated if Left Ventricular Reverse Remodeling (LVRR) prediction in a large cohort of Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (NICM) patients receiving evidence-based treatment is improved with a complete structural and functional Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (cMRI) evaluation over and above the classic clinical-echocardiographic approach. They found that independent predictors of LVRR were not identified by clinical-echocardiographic evaluation, but the absence of Late Gadolinium Enhancement, Left Ventricular Mass and Peak Circumferential Strain assessed by cMRI were found to be independently related to LVRR. Overall, the addition of a structural and functional cMRI study to the standard-of-care evaluation improved the prediction of LVRR in a large cohort of patients with recently diagnosed NICM receiving evidence-based treatment.
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