Left Atrial Reservoir Strain Improves Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Stratification in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
LARS was an independent predictor of SCD-related events and effectively stratified risk among patients classified as low-to-intermediate risk by the HCM Risk-SCD score and adding LARS to the HCM Risk-SCD score significantly improved risk discrimination in the low-to-intermediate risk population.