Left Ventricular Function

People with excess adiposity in young adulthood were more likely to have adverse cardiac structure and function later in life compared with people without it, researchers reported in the European Heart Journal.

Patients with systemic sclerosis who demonstrate left ventricular abnormalities, either overt or “subclinical,” have poorer survival and increased shortness of breath, according to data published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.

ATLANTA — Data from a small substudy with cardiac MRI suggest acoramidis may improve both cardiac mass and function for adults with symptomatic transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy, building on previous positive data, researchers reported.

Researchers reported that sacubitril/valsartan was more cost-effective for patients with HF and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction vs. those with HF with mildly reduced EF, for whom it was of intermediate value.

Adults with HF on optimized guideline-directed medical therapy had improvements in quality of life measures and functional status after participating in a yoga therapy program for 1 year, researchers reported.

Researchers in Brazil identified new echocardiographic parameters and biomarkers prognostic of poor cardiac event-free survival among patients with chronic Chagas disease, which affects up to 7 million worldwide.

Among women with suspected ischemia, using sex-specific left ventricular ejection fraction stratification, those with LVEF greater than 65% had the lowest rates of death and nonfatal MI, according to new data from the WISE study.

A deep neural network demonstrated good discrimination of reduced left ventricular ejection fraction using angiogram videos compared with transthoracic echocardiogram, researchers reported.

The novel ANTWERP score demonstrated good predictive value in identifying patients whose heart failure symptoms would improve after ablation for atrial fibrillation, a speaker reported.

Atrial fibrillation was associated with mortality in patients with significant aortic stenosis, but correction for left ventricular diastolic function rendered the association not significant, researchers reported.