Four‐dimensional quantification on left atrial volume‐strain in coronary heart disease patients without regional wall motion abnormalities: Correlation with the severity of coronary stenosis

Abstract

Objective: Echocardiography is a time and cost-effective imaging modality, providing evidence of myocardial ischemia by detecting the regional wall motion abnormalities (RWMA). However, quite a few coronary heart disease (CHD) patients do not present RWMA. The left atrium (LA) plays an irreplaceable role in determining the prognosis and risk stratification of cardiovascular disease including CHD. In this present study, we intend to explore the myocardial mechanics changes of LA mainly using four-dimensional (4D) LA quantitative volume-strain in CHD patients without RWMA at rest but were confirmed by coronary angiography (CAG) and to figure out several variables of the LA that could contribute to the identification of those patients. Methods: We prospectively enrolled 76 patients who underwent two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE), four-dimensional echocardiography (4DE), and CAG for suspected CHD but without echocardiographic visible RWMA at rest. Patients diagnosed with CHD by CAG were furtherly divided into three groups according to the extent of coronary stenosis accessed by Gensini score (GS) as the mild, moderate, and severe CHD group. Twenty-four subjects with negative CAG results served as the control group. LA end-systolic anteroposterior diameter (LAAPD) and biplane LV ejection fraction (Biplane LVEF) were measured by 2DE; LA maximum volume (LAVmax), LA minimum volume (LAVmin), LA volume at the onset of atrial contraction (LAVpreA), LAVmax index (LAVmaxI), LA ejection volume (LAEV), LA ejection fraction (LAEF)accompanied by LA longitudinal strain during reservoir phase (LASr), conduit phase (LAScd), contraction phase (LASct) and LA circumferential strain during reservoir phase (LASr_c), conduit phase (LAScd_c), contraction phase (LASct_c) were measured by 4DE automatically. We compared these parameters between groups, explored how they change and whether they are related to the CHD severity.Results: LAEF, LASr_c, and LASct_c was lower in CHD group compared with the control group (p = .031, .002, .004, respectively). Pearson correlation analysis showed that LASr, LASct, LASr_c, and LASct_c negatively correlated with the GS. Additionally, LASr of patients in the severe CHD group decreased significantly compared with those in the 758

Appraised Value of 3D Echocardiography Combined with the Triglyceride–Glucose Index to Evaluate the Long-Term Prognosis of Patients after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

“…CHD is the second most common cardiovascular disease in China; with a rapid onset, which takes less than 1 h from onset to death, and heavy burden of resuscitation and treatment, CHD seriously affects people's health [11][12][13]. PCI is the primary treatment method for this disease, and its effect on CHD has been fully confirmed by clinical studies [14,15]. In the diagnosis and treatment stages, the case data accumulated from past clinical work showed a significance in evaluating the prognosis of patients with coronary artery disease after PCI by using 3DE combined with the TYG index.…”