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| Title |
Quantitative evaluation of myocardial fibrosis by cardiac integrated backscatter analysis in Kawasaki disease
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| Published in |
Cardiovascular Ultrasound, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12947-016-0046-7 |
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| Authors |
Lijian Xie, Renjian Wang, Min Huang, Yongwei Zhang, Jie Shen, Tingting Xiao |
| Abstract |
Kawasaki disease is an acute, systemic vasculitis that affects the coronary arteries. However, the relationship between myocardial fibrosis and Kawasaki disease has been completely unknown until now. We aimed to provide quantitative information about myocardial fibrosis using cardiac integrated backscatter in Han race Kawasaki disease patients. Ninety Kawasaki disease patients and 90 healthy control subjects were recruited. Based on Kawasaki disease status, the patients were categorized into 3 groups: acute, subacute, and convalescence phase. Based on coronary artery status, the Kawasaki disease patients were categorized into 3 groups: without coronary artery lesions, with coronary artery dilation, and with coronary artery aneurysms. All subjects underwent two-dimensional and Doppler examinations to measure clinical echocardiographic parameters. Myocardial fibrosis was detected with calibrated integrated backscatter imaging. Left ventricle systolic functions were normal in both the Kawasaki disease and control participants. The myocardial calibrated integrated backscatter values of the left ventricles of the acute (p < 0.001), subacute (p < 0.001) and convalescence phase (p < 0.001) Kawasaki disease patients were significantly greater than those of the healthy controls. The left ventricle myocardial calibrated integrated backscatter values were significantly smaller in the Kawasaki disease patients without coronary artery lesions than in the Kawasaki disease patients with coronary artery dilations and coronary artery aneurysms in different phases. The left ventricle myocardial calibrated integrated backscatter results were positively correlated with coronary artery status in the acute (r = 0.331, p < 0.001), subacute (r = 0.456, p < 0.001) and convalescence phases (r = 0.407, p < 0.001) of Kawasaki disease. Our findings may suggest that myocardial fibrosis occurs during early episodes of Kawasaki disease given uncertainties that exist regarding correlations of calibrated integrated backscatter and myocardial fibrosis. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 18 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 17% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 1 | 6% |
| Librarian | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 2 | 11% |
| Unknown | 7 | 39% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 33% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 11% |
| Sports and Recreations | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 39% |
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