Causes and Consequences of Longitudinal LV Dysfunction Assessed by 2D Strain Echocardiography in Cardiac Amyloidosis
Author(s) -
Julien Ternacle,
Diane Bodez,
Aziz Guellich,
Étienne Audureau,
Stéphane Rappeneau,
Pascal Lim,
Costin Radu,
Soulef Guendouz,
Jean-Paul Couëtil,
N Benhaiem,
Luc Hittinger,
JeanLuc DuboisRandé,
Violaine PlantéBordeneuve,
Dania Mohty,
JeanFrançois Deux,
Thibaud Damy
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jacc. cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.79
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1936-878X
pISSN - 1876-7591
DOI - 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.05.014
Subject(s) - cardiac amyloidosis , transthyretin , medicine , cardiology , amyloidosis , heart failure , basal (medicine) , cardiac magnetic resonance imaging , magnetic resonance imaging , al amyloidosis , univariate analysis , mace , amyloid (mycology) , pathology , multivariate analysis , radiology , percutaneous coronary intervention , myocardial infarction , immunoglobulin light chain , insulin , immunology , antibody
The aim of this study was to compare left ventricular longitudinal strain (LS) evaluated by 2-dimensional echocardiography with cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) in cardiac amyloidosis (CA), establish correlations between histological and imaging findings, and assess the prognostic usefulness of LS measurement and CMR.
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