Differences in myocardial strain between pectus excavatum patients and healthy subjects assessed by cardiac MRI: a pilot study

• Published in: European radiology Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 1276 - 1284
• Main Authors: Lollert, André, Emrich, Tilman, Eichstädt, Jakob, Kampmann, Christoph, Abu-Tair, Tariq, Turial, Salmai, Düber, Christoph, Kreitner, Karl-Friedrich, Staatz, Gundula
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.03.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Cardiac; Child; Circumferences; Compensation; Compression; Contouring; Deformation mechanisms; Diagnostic Radiology; Female; Funnel Chest - complications; Funnel Chest - diagnosis; Funnel Chest - physiopathology; Healthy Volunteers; Heart; Heart diseases; Heart Ventricles - diagnostic imaging; Heart Ventricles - physiopathology; Humans; Imaging; Internal Medicine; Interventional Radiology; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine - methods; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Myocardium - pathology; Neuroradiology; Patients; Pilot Projects; Radiology; Strain rate; Ultrasound; Ventricle; Ventricular Dysfunction, Right - diagnosis; Ventricular Dysfunction, Right - etiology; Ventricular Dysfunction, Right - physiopathology; Ventricular Function, Right - physiology; Young Adult; Pectus excavatum; Quantitative imaging; Cardiac MRI; Feature tracking; Myocardial strain

Objectives To evaluate differences in myocardial strain between pectus excavatum (PE) patients and healthy subjects (HS) assessed by cardiac MRI using the feature-tracking algorithm. Methods Cardiac MRI was performed in 14 PE patients and 14 HS (9:5 male to female in each group; age 11–30 years) usi...