BackgroundSuccessful revascularization of chronic total occlusions has been associated with potential effects on left ventricular (LV) function. Strain and strain rate are more sensitive measures of LV mechanics than LV ejection fraction (LVEF). This study was conducted to investigate the impact of revascularization of chronic total occlusion (CTO) on LV function using tissue Doppler (TDI) strain echocardiography.ResultsThis study included 60 patients divided into two main groups: the percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) group including patients who had a successful PCI of CTO on left anterior descending (LAD) artery and was presented for elective PCI with symptomatic angina and/or positive functional ischemic study. They included 18 males with a mean age of 57 ± 5 years. The optimum medical treatment (OMT) group, including 30 patients, had non-revascularized CTO-LAD and was kept on OMT alone; 20 of them were males with a mean age of 58 ± 4 years. In the PCI group, there was a significant improvement in all the TDI strain parameters of the LAD territory segments. Six months after PCI, the peak systolic strain rate improved from − 0.65 ± 0.21 to 1.05 ± 0.31 1/s (p value < 0.01), the peak systolic strain improved from 6.54 ± 2.48 to 11.51 ± 3.33% ( p value < 0.001 ), and the end systolic strain improved from 7.88 ± 2.77 to 10.51 ± 3.14% (p value < 0.01 ). There was no significant improvement in the mean LVEF (60.70 ± 8.33 vs 61.91 ± 8.16% (p value = 0.6)). In the OMT group, there was no improvement in all the strain parameters and there was no change in the mean LVEF. In the PCI group, there was a significant improvement in the angina class (p value = 0.03) while, in the OMT group, there was no significant improvement (p value = 0.835).ConclusionsSuccessful PCI for CTO improved regional LV myocardial function assessed by TDI strain echocardiography. This improvement was associated with improvement in the angina class.
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