Reference Values for Myocardial Strain by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Feature Tracking: Insights From Healthy Volunteers and Heart Failure Patients Using Caas MR
Magnetic resonance imaging assessment of left ventricular myocardial strain using Caas MR Strain software reliably identifies HF patients. Discrimination between the different HF entities is potentially feasible by GLS, GCS, and GRS. Intervendor agreement was most robust for GLS and GCS, but less robust for GRS. For practical clinical use, we propose cut-off values for GLS above -15%, GCS above -15%, and GRS below 23% to define pathological findings.
Authors
- Karina Sánchez Carrizósa
- Stefanie Maria Werhahn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0805-3129)
- Karl Jakob Weiß (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2801-2017)
- Moritz Blum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-0048)
- Jana Veit
- Christian Stehning (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0660-840X)
- Gaston Vogel
- Shing Ching (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9805-3191)
- Rebecca Elisabeth Beyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9373-0756)
- Patrick Doeblin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1511-8015)
- Irene Carrión Sánchez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2998-7147)
- Djawid Hashemi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7092)
- Radu Tanacli
- Hans-Dirk Düngen
- Sebastian Kelle
- Nicole Mittmann
Institutions
- Instituto Cajal (ES)
- Maastricht University Medical Centre (NL)
- United Christian Hospital (CN)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DE)
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DE)
- Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal (ES)
- Philips (Germany) (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine
- Published
- 2026-01-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.31083/rcm41521
- Primary Topic
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislaufforschung
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging