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T1 mapping and myocardial extracellular volume assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance in diabetic patients with stable coronary artery disease.
Background: T1 mapping is a quantitative technique of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) increasingly used for characterization of the myocardium. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) may impact myocardial tissue structure, however studies that assessed this association using non-invasive methods have conflicting results.
Purpose: We sought to compare the tissue characteristics of the non-infarcted myocardium of patients with and without diabetes with multivessel CAD.
Methods: Patients with stable multivessel CAD and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), included in the MASS V trial, underwent contrast-enhanced CMR before revascularization procedures. Patients were stratified according to the T2DM diagnosis at baseline. Values of myocardial native T1, post-contrast T1 and extracellular volume fraction (ECV) were compared between diabetic and non-diabetic patients. Only myocardial tissue without late gadolinium enhancement were assessed.
Results: Of 155 patients studied, 67 (43%) were diabetic and 88 (57%) non-diabetic. Baseline characteristics were similiar between groups (age 70±10 vs 69±11; 69% vs 68% males; LVEF 65±13 vs 67±9). Mean Syntax score was 21.2±8.5 and 20.4±8.5 (p=0.52) in diabetic and non-diabetic, respectively. Myocardial native T1 values showed no diference in diabetic and non-diabetic (1013±67.9 vs 1015±61.4, p=0.72). However, in diabetic patients values of post-contrast T1 were significantly lower (482.2±43.8 vs 499.4±47.2, p=0.024) and ECV were higher (29.62±6.61 vs 27.08. ± 4.22, p=0.004). Multivariable analyses adjusted for age, sex, BMI, hypertension and Syntax score showed no differences in the results.
Conclusion: In this study, T2DM was associated with higher ECV and lower post-contrast T1 values in the myocardial tissue. These findings suggest an increase in the myocardial intersticial matrix in patients with diabetes and stable multivessel CAD.
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