Reduced bi-atrial reservoir strain in patients with cardiac amyloidosis: a cardiac magnetic resonance feature-tracking study
- 1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan
- 2Central Radiology Division, Akita University Hospital, Akita, Japan
Abstract
Background: Although heart strain analysis is useful for diagnosing cardiac amyloidosis (CA), it remains unclear which chamber best distinguishes CA from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). This study analyzed strain in all four cardiac chambers in patients with CA and HCM using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) feature-tracking. Methods: We enrolled 30 patients with left ventricular hypertrophy (15 with CA and 15 with HCM) and 17 healthy volunteers as a reference. Participants underwent 1.5-Tesla CMR to assess volume, function, and strain parameters in both ventricles and atria. The primary analysis comprised four comparisons between CA and HCM, one representative parameter per chamber (bi-ventricular longitudinal strain and bi-atrial reservoir strain), with Bonferroni correction ( P < 0.0125). Additionally, exploratory analyses of the other parameters were conducted comparing patients with CA to HCM. Results: Left atrial (LA) and right atrial (RA) reservoir strain were lower in CA than in HCM (LA: 7.1 ± 4.1% vs. 10.3 ± 3.9%, P = 0.035; RA: 10.8 ± 6.9% vs. 22.1 ± 12.9%, P = 0.005), whereas ventricular longitudinal strain did not differ. After Bonferroni correction, only RA reservoir strain remained significant. In an exploratory receiver operating characteristic analysis, the areas under the curve for LA and RA reservoir strain were 0.73 and 0.78, respectively, and did not differ significantly. Conclusion: Bi-atrial reservoir strain was lower in CA than in HCM, and the difference in RA reservoir strain remained significant after accounting for multiplicity. Atrial reservoir strain may provide adjunctive, contrast-free functional information to help differentiate CA from HCM.
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BibTeX
@article{kato2026reduced,
title = {{Reduced bi-atrial reservoir strain in patients with cardiac amyloidosis: a cardiac magnetic resonance feature-tracking study}},
author = {Ryosuke Kato and Hidehiro Iwakawa and Hirokazu Yoshida and Yohei Sasaki and Chihiro Miura and Nobuhiro Suzuki and Ryota Kaimori and Hiroyuki Watanabe},
journal = {International Journal of Cardiology: Heart \& Vasculature},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1016/j.ijcha.2026.102032},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2026.102032},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Reduced bi-atrial reservoir strain in patients with cardiac amyloidosis: a cardiac magnetic resonance feature-tracking study
AU - Ryosuke Kato
AU - Hidehiro Iwakawa
AU - Hirokazu Yoshida
AU - Yohei Sasaki
AU - Chihiro Miura
AU - Nobuhiro Suzuki
AU - Ryota Kaimori
AU - Hiroyuki Watanabe
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/24
JO - International Journal of Cardiology: Heart & Vasculature
DO - 10.1016/j.ijcha.2026.102032
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2026.102032
AB - Background: Although heart strain analysis is useful for diagnosing cardiac amyloidosis (CA), it remains unclear which chamber best distinguishes CA from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). This study analyzed strain in all four cardiac chambers in patients with CA and HCM using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) feature-tracking. Methods: We enrolled 30 patients with left ventricular hypertrophy (15 with CA and 15 with HCM) and 17 healthy volunteers as a reference. Participants underwent 1.5-Tesla CMR to assess volume, function, and strain parameters in both ventricles and atria. The primary analysis comprised four comparisons between CA and HCM, one representative parameter per chamber (bi-ventricular longitudinal strain and bi-atrial reservoir strain), with Bonferroni correction ( P < 0.0125). Additionally, exploratory analyses of the other parameters were conducted comparing patients with CA to HCM. Results: Left atrial (LA) and right atrial (RA) reservoir strain were lower in CA than in HCM (LA: 7.1 ± 4.1% vs. 10.3 ± 3.9%, P = 0.035; RA: 10.8 ± 6.9% vs. 22.1 ± 12.9%, P = 0.005), whereas ventricular longitudinal strain did not differ. After Bonferroni correction, only RA reservoir strain remained significant. In an exploratory receiver operating characteristic analysis, the areas under the curve for LA and RA reservoir strain were 0.73 and 0.78, respectively, and did not differ significantly. Conclusion: Bi-atrial reservoir strain was lower in CA than in HCM, and the difference in RA reservoir strain remained significant after accounting for multiplicity. Atrial reservoir strain may provide adjunctive, contrast-free functional information to help differentiate CA from HCM.
SN - 2352-9067
ER -