Abstract
Abstract Aims Recent studies have shown that extracellular volume (ECV) can also be obtained without blood sampling by the linear relationship between haematocrit (HCT) and blood pool R1 (1/T1). However, whether this relationship holds for patients with myocardial infarction is still unclear. This study established and validated an ECV model without blood sampling in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients. Methods and results A total of 398 STEMI patients who underwent cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) examination with T1 mapping and venous HCT within 24 h were retrospectively analysed. All patients were randomly divided into a derivation group and a validation group. The mean CMR scan time was 3 days after primary percutaneous coronary intervention. In the derivation group, a synthetic HCT formula was obtained by the linear regression between HCT and blood pool R1 (R2 = 0.45, P < 0.001). The formula was used in the validation group; the results showed high concordance and correlation between synthetic ECV and conventional ECV in integral (bias = −0.12; R2 = 0.92, P < 0.001), myocardial infarction site (bias = −0.23; R2 = 0.93, P < 0.001), and non-myocardial infarction sites (bias = −0.09; R2 = 0.94, P < 0.001). Conclusion In STEMI patients, synthetic ECV without blood sampling had good consistency and correlation with conventional ECV. This study might provide a convenient and accurate method to obtain the ECV from CMR to identify myocardial fibrosis.
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