Abstract:Objective To explore the relationship of myocardial “scarring” evaluated by Selvester QRS quantitatively with left ventricular remodeling and strain in dilated cardiomyopathy. Methods Totally 40 patients with DCM and 27 healthy people were recruited to get the echocardiography and ecg imagesconsecutively. According to the QRS score value, case group can be divided into negative group (score=0) and positive group (score=1 or higher), and health people as control group. Left ventricular systolic global longitudinal strain (GLS), global circumferential strain (GCS), global area ostrain (GAS) and global radial strain (GRS) parameters and so on were detected and compared between groups, and their correlation with QRS score were analyzed. Results GLS, GAS,GRS and LVEF of the negative group were all higher than those of the positive group (P < 0.05), while LVESV, LVEDD and LVESD were lower than those of the positive group with statistically significant difference (P < 0.05). In the case group, GLS, GRS and LVEF were negatively correlated with QRS score (r s = -0.582, -0.473 and -0.450, all P < 0.05), while LVEDD and LVESD were positively correlated with QRS score (r s = 0.536 and 0.514, all P < 0.05). The GLS sensitivity of ROC curve was 46.2% (95% CI: 0.266, 0.666), the specificity was 100% (95% CI: 0.768, 1.000); the sensitivity of LVEDd was 61.5% (95% CI: 0.406, 0.798), the specificity was 100% (95% CI: 0.768, 1.000); the sensitivity of LVESD was 59.5% (95% CI: 0.369, 0.766), the specificity was 100% (95% CI: 0.768, 1.000). Conclusions The Selvester QRS score has certain indicative significance for the systolic dysfunction of DCM, and GLS, LVEDD and LVESD have certain predictive value for the myocardial “scar” recognized by the Selvester QRS score system.