Left atrium phasic impairments in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking

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Authors

MOJICA-PISCIOTTI Mary Luz PANOVSKÝ Roman MASÁROVÁ Lucia PEŠL Martin STÁREK Zdeněk HOLEČEK Tomáš FEITOVÁ Věra OPATŘIL Lukáš DOLEŽALOVÁ Katarína KINCL Vladimír

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
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Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Web https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11233-5
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11233-5
Keywords Atrial fibrillation; Cardiology
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Description Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an abnormal and irregular heartbeat caused by uncoordinated electrical impulses in the left atrium (LA), which could induce lasting changes in the heart tissue or could be a consequence of underlying cardiac disease. This study aimed to assess the left atrial phasic function and deformation in paroxysmal AF (PAF) patients-who had not received radiofrequency ablation and had no signs of permanent AF-using the cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) feature-tracking (FT) technique. Fifty subjects (27 PAF patients and 23 controls) were included and examined with CMR. Their LA volume, LA function, LA longitudinal strain (LS) and LA strain rate were assessed in the LA reservoir, conduit, and contractile phases. PAF patients exhibited higher LA volumes than controls, while their LA emptying fraction and LA LS was significantly lower in all three phases. In contrast, the corresponding emptying volumes (total, passive and active) were similar in both groups. The LA volumetric rates from CMR-derived volume curves differed significantly in PAF patients vs controls in the reservoir and contractile phases. In contrast, the equivalent LV volumetric rates were similar. This study suggests that assessing the LA phasic function could offer insight into early LA impairments for PAF patients.
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