Abstract
The purpose of this article is to investigate the value of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) derived left ventricular strain parameters in evaluation of ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM). Thirty-one ICM patients and nineteen non-cardiomyopathy (non-CM) patients who performed CMR examinations during the same period were selected for this retrospective study. The basic clinical data, CMR left ventricular function parameters, left ventricular strain parameters were compared among the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) preserved ICM group, the LVEF impaired ICM group and the non-CM group. The differences of MyoGCS (-21.9 ± 1.9 vs. -18.9 ± 2.7 P<0.001), MyoGLS (-20.8 ± 2.3 vs. -17.0 ± 2.9 P<0.001) and EndoGLS (-22.2 ± 3.1 vs. -17.6 ± 3.7 P<0.001) between LVEF preserved ICM group and non-CM group were statistically significant, while the differences of left heart function parameters between the two groups were not statistically significant (P > 0.05). The left ventricular strain analysis can be used to assess cardiac functional and morphological alterations in ICM patients prior to changes of left ventricular function parameters, which has high clinical significance.
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