Keywords:
Cardiac, MR, Comparative studies, Inflammation, Retrospective, Case-control study, Not applicable
Authors:
R. palumbo1, D. De Stefano2, V. Cirimele2, A. tamburrano3, M. Luzietti4, V. BUFFA3, B. Beomonte Zobel2; 1roma, italia/IT, 2Rome/IT, 3roma/IT, 4Roma (RM)/IT
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2020/C-11556
Results
among the 67 Patients examined, 12 (18%) tested positive for myocardial edema; a significant reduction in the ejection fraction was observed in this subgroup compared to patients with negative T2-STIR (63% ± 6 vs 77% ± 10, p <0.001); in addition, an inverse correlation between the number of segments involved in edema and the ejection fraction value (r = -0.43; p <0.001) and a direct correlation between the extension of the edema and that of Late Gadolinium Enhancement (r = 0.45; p <0.001). The data obtained were finally correlated with the clinical-anamnestic ones and with the HCM Risk-Scd score from which it emerged that in Patients with myocardial edema detection there is a higher average frequency of episodes of unsupported ventricular tachycardia (65%; p <0.05) compared to negative STIR (25%; p <0.05) and a higher risk profile for SD.