Abstract #2160

A preliminary study on the mechanism of left ventricular myocardial strain in patients with pulmonary hypertension

Jing SONG¹, Yousan CHEN², Xiangchuang KONG¹, Yue CUI¹, Yukun CAO¹, Jia LIU¹, Xiaoyue ZHOU³, Heshui SHI¹, and JING SONG¹

¹Department of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, WUHAN, China, ²Department of Radiology, Wuhan General Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army, WUHAN, China, ³MR Collaboration，Siemens Healthcare Ltd，Shanghai，China, SHANGHAI, China

There is little understanding about the mechanism of left ventricular strain in pulmonary hypertension (PH) patients at present. In this study, we compared left ventricular strain between PH patients and the healthy controls. For PH patients with preserved or mildly improved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), the ventricular strain parameters decreased compared to the healthy controls. We found that left ventricular myocardial strain impairment in HP patients is associated with right ventricular overload of volume or pressure and decreased ejection capacity.

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