Chetan Shenoy

Have you ever wondered whether your patient with CAD and cardiomyopathy truly has ischemic cardiomyopathy, or whether the CAD is a “bystander”?

You might be interested in our paper now out in Circulation

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Thanks for the shoutout! A minor clarification - the high risk phenotype does not even incorporate an abnormal LVEF!!!!

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Important multicenter study in #EHJ
#CMR outperforms societal recs for ICD placement in cardiac sarcoidosis
📈AUC=0.86 for 5-yr risk of fatal/life-threatening arrhythmias
⚡Highest risk = abnl LVEF + LGE that is multifocal, septal, subepicardial, or involves RV freewall
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Identifying the Cause of Cardiomyopathy Using CMR (Chetan Shenoy, MBBS, MS) YouTube video by Houston Methodist DeBakey CV Education

Must-watch lecture on cardiomyopathy and CMR by @cshenoy.bsky.social

„more often than what is the EF we should ask the why?“

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Here's our paper in Circulation on the topic - bsky.app/profile/para...

YouTube video by Houston Methodist DeBakey CV Education Identifying the Cause of Cardiomyopathy Using CMR (Chetan Shenoy, MBBS, MS)

Here's my talk on how to identify the etiology of cardiomyopathy using CMR - www.youtube.com/watch?v=9or8...

In my opinion, both trials are fundamentally useless.

What is ischemic cardiomyopathy?

Both trials defined ischemic cardiomyopathy as LV dysfunction + obstructive CAD.

This does not identify the etiology of cardiomyopathy as ischemic, but identifies the presence of CAD. Two different things!!!

I don't exactly know. But...

1 - There was no real change in ECV in Explorer HCM (PMID 33190524).
2 - An increase in ECV is not necessarily bad. It increases after AVR (PMID 29471937).
3 - The amount of dead myocardium will never decrease. So, a "decrease in LGE" does not mean less badness.

Interesting. The ECV increased 1.1% (25 min) to 2.2% (5 min), which is difficult to explain. But it explains why LGE was less; it was quantified as the amount of myocardium 6SD brighter than "remote". LGE amount will be less if the remote myocardium is brighter after mavacamten than at baseline.

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CMR May Improve Assessment of ICD Need in Cardiac Sarcoidosis The imaging was better than societal recommendations at discriminating long-term risk of ventricular arrhythmias.

“CMR phenotyping can be used immediately in clinical practice to identify patients with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis who would benefit from a primary prevention ICD," said Chetan Shenoy, MD. Read more about how this can prevent life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias: www.tctmd.com/news/cmr-may...

Thank you, @toddneale.bsky.social, for your excellent reporting on our EHJ paper!

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#EHJCVI 🫀 What's the value of ventricular strain in systemic sclerosis? 📉 Both LVGLS and RVGLS are linked to death or MACE, unlike LVEF and RVEF 🧠 How does strain compare to traditional prognostic markers? 🔍 Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ehjc... #CardioSky @jgrapsa.bsky.social @escardio.bsky.social

Prediction of ventricular arrhythmic outcomes in suspected cardiac sarcoidosis: a comparison of cardiovascular magnetic resonance phenotyping vs. societal recommendations for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placement

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Cardiac sarcoidosis is a undervalued disease and difficult to diagnose and treat, considering potential life-threatening arrhythmias. Nice to have some more guidance.

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VT and VF/cardiac arrest - correct. That would be secondary prevention.

AV block is a Class IIa indication for an ICD in the guidelines for cardiac sarcoidosis. But who has cardiac sarcoidosis is not always clear.

What if patient has extracardiac sarcoidosis and complete AV block but no LGE? 🤔

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Please DM me if you would like a full-text PDF of the paper!

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In patients with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis, cardiac FDG-PET is recommended after a normal CMR if there is a high clinical suspicion. What are the data supporting this recommendation? #CardioSky #MedSky #Sarcoidosis

Query sarcoid, normal #WhyCMR, so then should we do FDG-PET? Not much benefit.

We discuss this in our editorial:
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Cardiac FDG-PET imaging in patients with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis and no late gadolinium enhancement on cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging: the emperor has no clothes! This editorial refers to ‘The Role of FDG PET/CT in Assessing Cardiac Sarcoidosis with No High-Risk Cardiac Features and Normal CMR’, by F. Shuduyeva et al

Read our accompanying editorial for our thoughts on the important paper –

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The role of FDG-PET/CT in assessing cardiac sarcoidosis with no high-risk cardiac features and normal CMR AbstractAims. Diagnosing cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) is challenging due to the variable presentation and the lack of consensus on optimal screening strategies

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A new study in EHJ - Cardiovascular Imaging describes 324 patients with normal CMR and no high-risk features who all also had FDG-PET.

21.3% had FDG uptake.

Their annualized event rate was <1%, indicating that FDG-PET has little diagnostic or prognostic utility.

A wealth of data indicates that patients evaluated for suspected cardiac sarcoidosis have excellent long-term outcomes if their CMR is normal, indirectly indicating that a normal CMR reliably rules out cardiac sarcoidosis.

None. This recommendation is based on clinical observations that sometimes FDG-PET is positive even when a CMR is normal. Is that good enough?

In patients with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis, cardiac FDG-PET is recommended after a normal CMR if there is a high clinical suspicion. What are the data supporting this recommendation? #CardioSky #MedSky #Sarcoidosis

The odds of having both genetic cardiomyopathy (which is not common) and cardiac sarcoidosis (which is very rare) are extremely rare.

Even in such cases, it’s simply a coincidence rather than a mechanistic link (based on what we know thus far).