CMR feature tracking strain patterns and their association with circulating cardiac biomarkers in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Ersin CavusKai MuellerleileSamuel SchellertJan SchneiderEnver TahirCeleste ChevalierCharlotte JahnkeUlf K RadunskiGerhard AdamPaulus KirchhofStefan BlankenbergGunnar K LundMaxim AvanesovMonica PattenPublished in: Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society (2021)
CMR-FT reveals LV and LA dysfunction in HCM despite normal LVEF. The association between impaired LV strain and elevated NT-proBNP and hsTnT indicates a link between unapparent functional abnormalities and disease severity in HCM. Typical CMR-FT findings in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.