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We evaluated the relationships between regional myocardial strain measured by speckle tracking echocardiography and viability, fibrosis, hypertrophy and oxygen consumption in the infarcted or remote myocardium in a pig model of chronic myocardial infarction (MI). Thirteen farm pigs with surgical occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery and five sham-operated pigs were studied 3 mo post-MI. Computed tomography revealed significant left ventricle remodeling. Reduced radial or circumferential strain identified areas of transmural infarction (area under the curve: 0.82 and 0.79, respectively). In the remote non-infarcted area, radial strain correlated inversely with the amount of fibrosis (r = -0.66, p = 0.04) and myocyte hypertrophy (r = -0.68, p = 0.03). Radial strain rate inversely correlated with myocardial resting oxygen consumption assessed with C-labeled acetate positron emission tomography (r = -0.71, p = 0.006). In conclusion, myocardial strain and strain rate reflect fibrosis, hypertrophy and oxygen consumption of the remote areas after MI.
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