Assessment of left ventricular diastolic flow in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by 4D FLOW MRI

Objective. To assess phase-contrast MRI in the evaluation of left ventricular hemodynamics changes in various forms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Materials and methods. 11 patients were examined: without pathology of the cardiovascular system (n = 3), with apical (n = 3), diffuse-septal (n = 2) and focal-basal (n = 3) types of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. All patients underwent MRI of the heart with an additional phase-contrast sequence of the left ventricular area. Postprocessing carried out in the 4D FLOW application (Siemens).

Results. Data were obtained on the geometry and dynamics of vortex diastolic flows in the left ventricular of all patients. In patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an increase in the distance to the center of the vortex and a decrease in the normalized area and peak velocity of the vortex is determined. The diffuse-septal type is characterized by a minimal vortex peak velocity; apical type - by the maximum vortex sphericity index. For patients with a focalbasal type of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy the maximum changes in blood flow are determined in late diastole (absence of vortexes).

Conclusion. 4D FLOW Phase-contrast MRI allows identifying and assessing LV vortical flow. Quantitative analysis can be used to characterize the remodeling of LV blood flow of various types of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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