Abstract
Background: Patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (rTOF) suffer from progressive ventricular dysfunction decades after their surgical repair. We hypothesized that measures of ventricular strain and dyssynchrony would predict deterioration of ventricular function in patients with rTOF.
Methods: A database search identified all patients at a single institution with rTOF who underwent cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) at least twice, > 6 months apart, without intervening surgical or catheter procedures. Seven primary predictors were derived from the first CMR using a custom feature tracking algorithm: left (LV), right (RV) and inter-ventricular dyssynchrony, LV and RV peak global circumferential strains, and LV and RV peak global longitudinal strains. Three outcomes were defined, whose changes were assessed over time: RV end-diastolic volume, and RV and LV ejection fraction. Multivariate linear mixed models were fit to investigate relationships of outcomes to predictors and ten potential baseline confounders.
Results: One hundred fifty-three patients with rTOF (23 ± 14 years, 50 % male) were included. The mean follow-up duration between the first and last CMR was 2.9 ± 1.3 years. After adjustment for confounders, none of the 7 primary predictors were significantly associated with change over time in the 3 outcome variables. Only 1–17 % of the variability in the change over time in the outcome variables was explained by the baseline predictors and potential confounders.
Conclusions: In patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot, ventricular dyssynchrony and global strain derived from cine CMR were not significantly related to changes in ventricular size and function over time. The ability to predict deterioration in ventricular function in patients with rTOF using current methods is limited.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-22-2016
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12968-016-0268-8
Funding Information
This work was supported by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5 OD-012132), NIH grant number KL2 RR033171 from the National Center for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, and American Heart Association Great Rivers Affiliate via grant 14POST20310025.
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The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available on reasonable request with approval of the corresponding author and Boston Children’s Hospital Institutional Review Board.
Repository Citation
Jing, Linyuan; Wehner, Gregory J.; Suever, Jonathan D.; Charnigo, Richard; Alhadad, Sudad; Stearns, Evan; Mojsejenko, Dimitri; Haggerty, Christopher M.; Hickey, Kelsey; Valente, Anne Marie; Geva, Tal; Powell, Andrew J.; and Fornwalt, Brandon K., "Left and Right Ventricular Dyssynchrony and Strains from Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Feature Tracking Do Not Predict Deterioration of Ventricular Function in Patients with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot" (2016). Saha Cardiovascular Research Center Faculty Publications. 28.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cvrc_facpub/28
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Published in Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, v. 18, 49, p. 1-10.
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