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Hämäläinen H, Corovai A, Laitinen J, Laitinen TM, Hedman M, Hedman A, Kivelä A, Laitinen TP. Myocardial ischemia and previous infarction contribute to left ventricular dyssynchrony in patients with coronary artery disease. J Nucl Cardiol 2021; 28:3010-3020. [PMID: 32869165 PMCID: PMC8709814 DOI: 10.1007/s12350-020-02316-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2019] [Accepted: 07/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
AIMS The aim of this study was to characterize determinants of left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony (LVMD) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODS Medical records and results of myocardial perfusion SPECT/CT studies were evaluated in 326 patients with previously diagnosed CAD. LVMD was assessed with the phase analysis of ECG-gated myocardial SPECT. Dyssynchrony was described with phase histogram bandwidth (PHBW), standard deviation (PHSD) or entropy (PHE) values above limit of the highest normal. RESULTS Prevalence of LVMD was 29% in CAD patients. Size of the infarction scar and ischemia extent correlated significantly with PHBW, PHSD and PHE (P < 0.001 for all). Independent predictors of LVMD were myocardial infarction scar (P = 0.004), ischemia extent (P = 0.003), and QRS duration (P = 0.003). Previous percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass grafting did not independently predict dyssynchrony. CONCLUSIONS Almost one-third of CAD patients had significant LVMD. Dyssynchrony was associated with earlier myocardial infarction and presence of myocardial ischemia. Previous percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass grafting did not independently predict dyssynchrony.
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- Hanna Hämäläinen
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, PO BOX 100, Kuopio, 70029, KYS, Finland.
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- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, PO BOX 100, Kuopio, 70029, KYS, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, PO BOX 100, Kuopio, 70029, KYS, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, PO BOX 100, Kuopio, 70029, KYS, Finland
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Heart Center, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Heart Center, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, PO BOX 100, Kuopio, 70029, KYS, Finland
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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Zhu T, Lei M, Wang Z, Zhang R, Zhang Y, Jin W, Yu C, Huang CLH, Liu D, Zheng W, Liu Y, Quan X, Kong L, Liang S, Zhang X. A Comparative Study of Systolic and Diastolic Mechanical Synchrony in Canine, Primate, and Healthy and Failing Human Hearts. Front Cardiovasc Med 2021; 8:750067. [PMID: 34778406 PMCID: PMC8581184 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.750067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Accepted: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Aim: Mechanical dyssynchrony (MD) is associated with heart failure (HF) and may be prognostically important in cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Yet, little is known about its patterns in healthy or diseased hearts. We here investigate and compare systolic and diastolic MD in both right (RV) and left ventricles (LV) of canine, primate and healthy and failing human hearts. Methods and Results: RV and LV mechanical function were examined by pulse-wave Doppler in 15 beagle dogs, 59 rhesus monkeys, 100 healthy human subjects and 39 heart failure (HF) patients. This measured RV and LV pre-ejection periods (RVPEP and LVPEP) and diastolic opening times (Q-TVE and Q-MVE). The occurrence of right (RVMDs) and left ventricular systolic mechanical delay (LVMDs) was assessed by comparing RVPEP and LVPEP values. That of right (RVMDd) and left ventricular diastolic mechanical delay (LVMDd) was assessed from the corresponding diastolic opening times (Q-TVE and Q-MVE). These situations were quantified by values of interventricular systolic (IVMDs) and diastolic mechanical delays (IVMDd), represented as positive if the relevant RV mechanical events preceded those in the LV. Healthy hearts in all species examined showed greater LV than RV delay times and therefore positive IVMDs and IVMDd. In contrast a greater proportion of the HF patients showed both markedly increased IVMDs and negative IVMDd, with diastolic mechanical asynchrony negatively correlated with LVEF. Conclusion: The present IVMDs and IVMDd findings have potential clinical implications particularly for personalized setting of parameter values in CRT in individual patients to achieve effective treatment of HF.
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- Tiangang Zhu
- Department of Cardiology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Medical Sciences Division, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.,Key Laboratory of Medical Electrophysiology of Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China.,Department of Cardiology, The Eighth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Case Cardiovascular Research Institute, Institute for Molecular Transformative Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Electrophysiology of Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China.,Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Fuwai Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Pourier MS, Dull MM, Weijers G, Loonen J, Bellersen L, de Korte CL, Kapusta L, Mavinkurve-Groothuis AMC. Left ventricular dyssynchrony in long-term childhood cancer survivors treated with anthracyclines: a retrospective cross-sectional study. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 2021; 37:3469-3475. [PMID: 34357522 PMCID: PMC8604879 DOI: 10.1007/s10554-021-02347-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to investigate left ventricular contraction patterns in asymptomatic Childhood cancer survivors (CCS) using two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2DSTE). Left ventricular longitudinal and circumferential myocardial parameters were assessed using 2DSTE, in asymptomatic CCS and age matched healthy controls. Time to peak (T2P) systolic strain was quantified. Dyssynchrony index (DI) was measured by calculating the standard deviation of T2P systolic strain of six segments in each view. Difference between T2P systolic longitudinal strain of septal and lateral wall was also assessed as a parameter for dyssynchrony. We included 115 CCS with a median age of 17.2 years (range 5.6–39.5) and a median follow up of 11.3 years (range 4.9–29.5) and 119 controls. Conventional echocardiographic parameters and global longitudinal strain were significantly decreased in CCS compared to controls (p < 0.01 and p = 0.02, respectively). Dyssynchrony index did not differ between CCS and controls. There was a clinically insignificant smaller absolute difference between T2P systolic longitudinal of septal and lateral wall in CCS compared to controls. We showed no difference in longitudinal or circumferential left ventricular dyssynchrony in CCS compared to controls using 2DSTE. Future research should focus on assessing dyssynchrony in more segments and a larger CCS population, using both 2D and 3DSTE.
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- Milanthy S Pourier
- Department of Pediatrics, Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. .,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Medical UltraSound Imaging Centre (MUSIC), Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Medical UltraSound Imaging Centre (MUSIC), Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Hematology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Medical UltraSound Imaging Centre (MUSIC), Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel.,Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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