Impairment of right ventricular strain evaluated by cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking in patients with interstitial lung disease.
Hiroyuki KamideShingo KatoKeigo HayakawaKazuki FukuiHideya KitamuraTakashi OguraTae IwasawaKazuo KimuraKouichi TamuraDaisuke UtsunomiyaPublished in: The international journal of cardiovascular imaging (2020)
Presence of PH was associated with impairment of RV strain, and RV strain could predict short-term mortality in patients with ILD. RV strain by feature tracking might be useful as a non-invasive prognostic marker for patients with ILD.