Research Article

Early Diagnosis of Abnormal Left Ventricular Systolic Functions of Rare Pathogenic Titin Mutation Gene Carriers in FHCM by Three-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Echocardiography Combined with Gene Detection

Table 4

Comparison of three-dimensional strain indexes of 16 segments between the two groups ( ± s).

GroupsRLS (%)RCS (%)RRS (%)
Noncarrier group (n = 12)Carrier group (n = 4)Noncarrier group (n = 12)Carrier group (n = 4)Noncarrier group (n = 12)Carrier group (n = 4)

Apex segment
Antetheca−15.62 ± 3.13−10.35 ± 2.16−21.46 ± 2.28−23.96 ± 5.1756.12 ± 10.5859.92 ± 18.44
Side wall−17.99 ± 0.97−16.10 ± 1.16−20.51 ± 3.71−15.62 ± 6.4163.21 ± 9.1245.37 ± 17.12
Inferior wall−20.23 ± 5.14−18.65 ± 1.44−25.94 ± 3.65−30.55 ± 4.39102.99 ± 29.0699.14 ± 20.13
Interventricular septum−19.67 ± 3.76−13.67 ± 1.43−12.21 ± 5.35−15.57 ± 6.2793.25 ± 28.1088.85 ± 20.96

Mid-segment
Anteroseptum−18.72 ± 0.59−18.14 ± 2.96−16.52 ± 3.93−15.97 ± 5.4958.15 ± 13.2145.91 ± 12.05
Antetheca−21.71 ± 2.16−20.33 ± 1.88−24.82 ± 3.14−25.54 ± 6.6580.53 ± 9.2274.16 ± 2.43
Side wall−20.63 ± 1.75−18.87 ± 1.21−23.39 ± 2.10−21.48 ± 2.6675.59 ± 7.1669.88 ± 13.10
Posterior wall−18.04 ± 0.81−9.71±1.32−27.36 ± 1.84−26.17 ± 7.3282.95 ± 10.4255.61 ± 9.33
Inferior wall−21.58 ± 1.03−17.61 ± 1.12−28.93 ± 4.62−25−15 ± 3.6196.18 ± 15.2481.16 ± 14.77
Posterior-septal−18.54 ± 2.69−13.09±0.28−20.31 ± 4.62−21.75 ± 4.4980.26 ± 11.6579.22 ± 10.37

Basal segment
Anteroseptum−25.67 ± 4.14−12.62±3.12−21.48 ± 4.03−19.96 ± 3.1592.13 ± 18.4379.91 ± 11.42
Antetheca−26.48 ± 1.71−22.23 ± 3.16−22.34 ± 3.52−20.77 ± 3.40103.87 ± 31.8090.55 ± 10.74
Side wall−21.01 ± 2.11−19.06 ± 2.13−20.89 ± 2.06−19.02 ± 4.8182.92 ± 8.1179.49 ± 10.69
Posterior wall−20.55 ± 1.26−21.51 ± 2.92−20.49 ± 2.18−21.63 ± 0.8765.25 ± 20.1670.51 ± 10.77
Inferior wall−22.62 ± 4.84−23.31 ± 1.83−17.91 ± 3.13−19.20 ± 3.5596.01 ± 22.0089.14 ± 12.59
Posterior-septal−20.58 ± 3.13−18.58 ± 2.04−16.37 ± 4.03−15.92 ± 5.8670.49 ± 10.4068.14 ± 20.99

Compared with the noncarrier group,  < 0.05. RLS: regional longitudinal strain, RCS: regional circumference strain, and RRS: regional radial strain. The bold values are indexes,  < 0.05.