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Methods: We retrospectively included 77 patients with severe AS undergoing PCD-CT imaging for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) planning between January 2022 and May 2024 with a protocol including a non-contrast cardiac scan, an ECG-gated helical coronary CT angiography (CCTA), and a cardiac late enhancement scan. Myocardial strain was assessed with feature tracking from CCTA and ECV was calculated from spectral cardiac late enhancement scans. Results: Patients with cardiac amyloidosis (n = 4) exhibited significantly higher median mid-myocardial ECV (48.2% versus 25.5%, p = 0.048) but no significant differences in strain values (p &gt; 0.05). Patients with prior myocardial infarction (n = 6) had reduced median global longitudinal strain values (\u22129.1% versus \u221221.7%, p &lt; 0.001) but no significant differences in global mid-myocardial ECV (p &gt; 0.05). Significant correlations were identified between the global longitudinal, circumferential, and radial strains and the CT-derived left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) (all, p &lt; 0.001). Patients with low-flow, low-gradient AS and reduced EF exhibited lower median global longitudinal strain values compared with those with high-gradient AS (\u221215.2% versus \u221225.8%, p &lt; 0.001). In these patients, the baso-apical mid-myocardial ECV gradient correlated with GLS values (R = 0.28, p = 0.02). Conclusions: In patients undergoing PCD-CT for TAVR planning, ECV and GLS may enable us to detect patients with cardiac amyloidosis and reduced myocardial contractility<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diagnostics15020224","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,20]],"date-time":"2025-01-20T04:04:12Z","timestamp":1737345852000},"page":"224","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Relationship Between Myocardial Strain and Extracellular Volume: Exploratory Study in Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis Undergoing Photon-Counting Detector CT"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Costanza","family":"Lisi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland"},{"name":"Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, via Rita Levi Montalcini 4, 20090 Pieve Emanuele, Italy"},{"name":"IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Via Manzoni 56, Rozzano, 20089 Milan, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4544-4804","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Victor","family":"Mergen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lukas J.","family":"Moser","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Konstantin","family":"Klambauer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3253-9687","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jonathan","family":"Michel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Albert M.","family":"Kasel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2581-2166","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hatem","family":"Alkadhi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9476-3759","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Matthias","family":"Eberhard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"377","DOI":"10.1093\/ehjqcco\/qcac014","article-title":"European Society of Cardiology: Cardiovascular disease statistics 2021: Executive Summary","volume":"8","author":"Timmis","year":"2022","journal-title":"Eur. 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