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Du GQ, Hsiung MC, Wu Y, Qu SH, Wei J, Yin WH, Tian JW. Three-Dimensional Speckle-Tracking Echocardiographic Monitoring of Acute Rejection in Heart Transplant Recipients. JOURNAL OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE 2016; 35:1167-1176. [PMID: 27105950 DOI: 10.7863/ultra.15.07013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2015] [Accepted: 09/01/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVES This study assessed the use of 3-dimensional (3D) speckle-tracking echocardiography for noninvasive monitoring and diagnosis of acute rejection in heart transplant recipients. METHODS Fifteen heart transplant recipients underwent 32 endomyocardial biopsies; echocardiography was performed within 3 hours before biopsy. Twenty-four biopsies (acute rejection-negative group) showed grade 0 or 1A rejection, and 8 biopsies (acute rejection-positive group) showed grade 1B or higher rejection (based on the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation criteria). Two-dimensional, M-mode, pulsed Doppler, and tissue Doppler echocardiography were performed to assess conventional heart structure and function, and 3D full-volume echocardiography was recorded and analyzed. RESULTS Global peak longitudinal strain was significantly lower in the acute rejection-negative group compared to the positive group (mean ± SD, -7.38% ± 1.34% versus -10.88% ± 3.81%; P = .017). Differences in left ventricular global peak radial strain (28.79% ± 10.79% versus 24.32% ± 5.24%; P= .272), global peak circumferential strain (-12.16% ± 4.87% versus -12.61% ± 2.38%; P = .806), and ejection fraction (49.42% ± 12.17% versus 50.68% ± 7.26%; P = .824) between the negative and positive groups were not significant. Significant correlations were observed between the left ventricular ejection fraction and global peak longitudinal, global peak radial, and global peak circumferential (r = -0.72; P < .001; r = 0.60; P < 0.001; and r = -0.69; P < 0.001, respectively). Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that a global peak longitudinal strain cutoff value of less than -9.55% could predict grade 1B or higher rejection with sensitivity of 87.50% and specificity of 54.17%. CONCLUSIONS Three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography-derived global peak longitudinal strain is a useful parameter for detecting acute rejection; thus, 3D speckle-tracking echocardiography can monitor dynamic and acute rejection (≥1B) in heart transplant recipients.
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- Guo-Qing Du
- Department of Ultrasound, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, ChinaKey Laboratories of Myocardial Ischemia Mechanism and Treatment, Harbin Medical University, Ministry of Education, Harbin, China
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- Division of Cardiology, Heart Center, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Ultrasound, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, ChinaKey Laboratories of Myocardial Ischemia Mechanism and Treatment, Harbin Medical University, Ministry of Education, Harbin, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, ChinaKey Laboratories of Myocardial Ischemia Mechanism and Treatment, Harbin Medical University, Ministry of Education, Harbin, China
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- Division of Cardiology, Heart Center, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Division of Cardiology, Heart Center, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, TaiwanFaculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Ultrasound, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, ChinaKey Laboratories of Myocardial Ischemia Mechanism and Treatment, Harbin Medical University, Ministry of Education, Harbin, China
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Kofflard M, Michels M, Krams R, Kliffen M, Geleijnse M, Ten Cate F, Serruys P. Coronary flow reserve in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: relation with microvascular dysfunction and pathophysiological characteristics. Neth Heart J 2011; 15:209-15. [PMID: 17612685 PMCID: PMC1896141 DOI: 10.1007/bf03085982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND.: The decrease in coronary flow reserve (CFR) in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) predisposes to myocardial ischaemia, systolic dysfunction and cardiac death. In this study we investigate to which extent haemodynamic, echocardiographic, and histological parameters contribute to the reduction of CFR. METHODS.: In ten HCM patients (mean age 44+/-14 years) and eight heart transplant (HTX) patients (mean age 51+/-6 years) CFR was calculated in the left anterior descending coronary artery. In all subjects haemodynamic, echocardiographic and histological parameters were assessed. The relationship between these variables and CFR was determined using linear regression analysis. RESULTS.: CFR was reduced in HCM compared with HTX patients (1.6+/-0.7 vs. 2.7+/-0.8, p<0.01). An increase in septal thickness (p<0.005), indexed left ventricular (LV) mass (p<0.005), LV end-diastolic pressure (p<0.001), LV outflow tract gradient (p<0.05) and a decrease in arteriolar lumen size (p<0.05) were all related to a reduction in CFR. CONCLUSION.: In HCM patients haemodynamic (LV end-diastolic pressure, LV outflow tract gradient), echocardiographic (indexed LV mass) and histological (% luminal area of the arterioles) changes are responsible for a decrease in CFR. (Neth Heart J 2007;15:209-15.).
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- M.J. Kofflard
- Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Dordrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcentre, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcentre, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcentre, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcentre, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcentre, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Alteration in systemic vascular resistance and cardiac output during acute cellular rejection and recovery in heart transplant recipients. J Heart Lung Transplant 2010; 29:382-4. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2009] [Revised: 08/07/2009] [Accepted: 08/09/2009] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Mondillo S, Maccherini M, Galderisi M. Usefulness and limitations of transthoracic echocardiography in heart transplantation recipients. Cardiovasc Ultrasound 2008; 6:2. [PMID: 18190712 PMCID: PMC2249582 DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-6-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2007] [Accepted: 01/11/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Transthoracic echocardiography is a primary non-invasive modality for investigation of heart transplant recipients. It is a versatile tool which provides comprehensive information about cardiac structure and function. Echocardiographic examinations can be easily performed at the bedside and serially repeated without any patient's discomfort. This review highlights the usefulness of Doppler echocardiography in the assessment of left ventricular and right ventricular systolic and diastolic function, of left ventricular mass, valvular heart disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension and pericardial effusion in heart transplant recipients. The main experiences performed by either standard Doppler echocardiography and new high-tech ultrasound technologies are summarised, pointing out advantages and limitations of the described techniques in diagnosing acute allograft rejection and cardiac graft vasculopathy. Despite the sustained efforts of echocardiographic technique in predicting the biopsy state, endocardial myocardial biopsies are still regarded as the gold standard for detection of acute allograft rejection. Conversely, stress echocardiography is able to identify accurately cardiac graft vasculopathy and has a recognised prognostic in this clinical setting. A normal stress-echo justifies postponement of invasive studies. Another use of transthoracic echocardiography is the monitorisation and the visualisation of the catheter during the performance of endomyocardial biopsy. Bedside stress echocardiography is even useful to select appropriately heart donors with brain death. The ultrasound monitoring is simple and effective for monitoring a safe performance of biopsy procedures.
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- Sergio Mondillo
- Cardiologia Universitaria, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy.
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Wu YW, Yen RF, Lee CM, Ho YL, Wang SS, Hsu RB, Chou NK, Huang PJ. Usefulness of Progressive Inhomogeneity of Myocardial Perfusion and Chronotropic Incompetence in Detecting Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy: Evaluation with Dobutamine Thallium-201 Myocardial SPECT. Cardiology 2005; 104:156-61. [PMID: 16127274 DOI: 10.1159/000087767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2004] [Accepted: 03/15/2005] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to investigate the value of longitudinal follow-up of dobutamine thallium-201 single photon emission tomography ((201)Tl SPECT) in the development of significant cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) after orthotopic heart transplantation. METHODS We studied 38 cardiac recipients (mean age 57 +/- 12 years) who underwent at least two follow-up dobutamine (201)Tl SPECT since January 1998. All patients had normal coronary angiography and normal left ventricular function initially. RESULTS After 2.3 +/- 1.8 years, 12 patients developed significant CAV and there were 4 cardiac deaths (1 died suddenly). Of the 99 scans retrospectively analyzed, patients with significant CAV had elevated values of inhomogeneity score, lung/heart ratio (LHR) at stress and lower left ventricular ejection fraction (all p < 0.05). The higher values of inhomogeneity were significantly correlated with higher stress LHR (r = 0.301, p = 0.021), and lower ejection fraction (r = -0.379, p < 0.001). Progressive inhomogeneity was noted in all heart recipients, and more rapid, although statistically insignificant, in patients who developed significant CAV. Ten patients had inadequate chronotropic response to dobutamine infusion up to 40 mug/kg/min in the follow-up studies. The late onset of chronotropic incompetence was an independent predictor of CAV development (p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS Progressive inhomogeneity of myocardial perfusion, higher lung uptake at stress and chronotropic incompetence assessed by dobutamine (201)Tl myocardial SPECT provide incremental diagnostic value in detecting significant CAV.
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- Yen-Wen Wu
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei
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Jackson PA, Akosah KO, Kirchberg DJ, Mohanty PK, Minisi AJ. Relationship between dobutamine-induced regional wall motion abnormalities and coronary flow reserve in heart transplant patients without angiographic coronary artery disease. J Heart Lung Transplant 2002; 21:1080-9. [PMID: 12398873 DOI: 10.1016/s1053-2498(02)00444-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Regional wall motion abnormalities (RWMA) demonstrated by dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) are a sensitive predictor of coronary artery disease (CAD) in heart transplant recipients. However, RWMA have been shown to occur in patients with angiographically "normal" coronary arteries. The reasons for this are unknown. We sought to determine if abnormal responses to dobutamine in this setting can be explained by microvascular dysfunction in the coronary circulation as detected by decreased coronary flow reserve (CFR). METHODS Twenty-six consecutive heart transplant patients were evaluated prospectively. Five of 26 (19.2%) patients (seven coronary arteries) were excluded for poor acoustic windows on echocardiography. Another three patients were excluded for angiographically apparent CAD. CFR and wall motion score index (WMSI) derived from DSE were measured in the remaining 18 patients and formed the basis of this study. Patients were divided into two groups based on the absence (Group 1; n = 5) or presence (Group 2; n = 13) of RWMA on DSE. CFR was measured with the Doppler Flo-Wire in 34 coronary arteries (18 patients) and correlated with WMSI. RESULTS In Group 1 patients, CFR measured in eight coronary arteries was normal (2.6 +/- 0.4). In Group 2 patients, CFR measured in 26 coronary arteries also was normal (2.2 +/- 0.6; p = NS vs Group 1). In Group 2, CFR was measured in 20 of 24 vessels assigned to segments that developed RWMA. Only 6 of these 20 vessels (30%) had abnormal CFR. Overall, there was no correlation between decreased CFR and the presence of RWMA induced by dobutamine. CONCLUSIONS These data suggest that, in cardiac transplant patients with angiographically "normal" coronary arteries, inducible wall motion abnormalities during DSE cannot be attributed to coronary microvascular dysfunction as manifested by decreased CFR.
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- Paul A Jackson
- McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia 23249, USA
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With technical advancements, including high frequency, multiplane transducers, digital acquisition and display, and left-sided contrast agents, TEE is emerging as a promising method for evaluating coronary artery disease. Visualization of proximal coronary artery stenoses and coronary artery anomalies is already possible. Research studies using TEE measurement have contributed to understanding coronary artery physiology and may prove to be a valuable clinical tool in the future.
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- H J Youn
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Catholic University of Korea, St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
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Preumont N, Berkenboom G, Vachiery J, Jansens J, Antoine M, Wikler D, Damhaut P, Degré S, Lenaers A, Goldman S. Early alterations of myocardial blood flow reserve in heart transplant recipients with angiographically normal coronary arteries. J Heart Lung Transplant 2000; 19:538-45. [PMID: 10867333 DOI: 10.1016/s1053-2498(00)00093-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The evaluation of the coronary reserve provides valuable information on the status of coronary vessels. Therefore, we studied with positron emission tomography (PET) and 13N-ammonia the myocardial blood flow (MBF) reserve in heart transplant recipients free of allograft rejection and with angiographically normal coronary arteries early after heart transplantation (HTx). The MBF reserve was calculated as the ratio between MBF after dipyridamole injection and basal MBF normalized for the rate-pressure product. METHODS Patients were studied within 3 months (group A, n = 12) or more than 9 months (group B, n = 12) after HTx. Five patients have been studied both during the early and late period after HTx. Results were compared to those obtained in 7 normal volunteers (NL). RESULTS Group A recipients had a significantly lower dipyridamole MBF (in ml/min/100 gr of tissue) than that of group B recipients (142+/-34 vs 195+/-59, p<0.05). This resulted in a significant decrease in MBF reserve early after HTx (group A: 1.82+/- 0.33) and a restoration to normal values thereafter (group B: 2.52+/- 0.53 vs NL: 2.62+/-0.51, p = ns). Separate analysis of 5 patients studied twice is consistent with these results. CONCLUSION This study shows that in heart transplant recipients free of allograft rejection and with normal coronary angiography, MBF reserve is impaired early after HTx. Restoration within one year suggests that this abnormality does not represent an early stage of cardiac allograft vasculopathy.
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- N Preumont
- Department of Cardiology, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
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Kushwaha SS, Narula J, Narula N, Zervos G, Semigran MJ, Fischman AJ, Alpert NA, Dec GW, Gewirtz H. Pattern of changes over time in myocardial blood flow and microvascular dilator capacity in patients with normally functioning cardiac allografts. Am J Cardiol 1998; 82:1377-81. [PMID: 9856923 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(98)00645-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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This study tests the hypothesis that myocardial blood flow and coronary microvascular dilator capacity vary as a function of time after orthotopic heart transplantation in humans. Positron emission tomography measurements of myocardial blood flow were obtained at rest and during adenosine in 24 patients between 1 and 86 months after heart transplantation. At the time of the study all patients were clinically well and had angiographically normal epicardial coronary artery vessels. Patients were divided into 3 groups based on time from transplant to positron emission tomography measurement of myocardial blood flow: group 1 to 12 months (n = 9); group 13 to 34 months (n = 8); and group > or = 37 months (n = 7). Basal myocardial blood flow in group 1 to 12 months (1.86+/-1.01 ml/min/g) exceeded (p <0.05) that of group 13 to 34 months (1.17+/-0.73) and group > or = 37 months (0.98+/-0.34). In group 13 to 34 months, basal myocardial blood flow and maximal dilator capacity (minimal coronary vascular resistance with adenosine 36+/-12 mm Hg/ml/min/g) were comparable to that of normal volunteers (1.01+/-0.20 and 37+/-, respectively). In group > or = 37 months, maximal flow response to adenosine was reduced (2.54+/-1.25 vs 3.16+/-0.52, respectively, p = 0.06). Maximal dilator capacity in group > or = 37 months (60+/-34) was impaired versus group 1 to 12 months (36+/-10) and group 13 to 34 months (36+/-12; both p <0.05) as well as normals (37+/-9, p <0.05). During the first year after cardiac transplantation basal myocardial blood flow is elevated out of proportion to external determinants of myocardial oxygen demand, but maximal dilator capacity of the coronary microcirculation is normal. Between 1 and 3 years both basal myocardial blood flow and microvascular function tend to normalize. After 3 years, although basal myocardial blood flow is normal, microvascular dilator capacity is impaired.
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- S S Kushwaha
- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA
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Kern MJ, Dupouy P, Drury JH, Aguirre FV, Aptecar E, Bach RG, Caracciolo EA, Donohue TJ, Rande JL, Geschwind HJ, Mechem CJ, Kane G, Teiger E, Wolford TL. Role of coronary artery lumen enlargement in improving coronary blood flow after balloon angioplasty and stenting: a combined intravascular ultrasound Doppler flow and imaging study. J Am Coll Cardiol 1997; 29:1520-7. [PMID: 9180114 DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(97)00082-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVES This study sought to examine the mechanism of increasing coronary flow reserve after balloon angioplasty and stenting. BACKGROUND Coronary vasodilatory reserve (CVR) does not improve after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in > or = 50% of patients, postulated to be due to impaired microvascular circulation or inadequate lumen expansion despite adequate angiographic results. METHODS To demonstrate the role of coronary lumen expansion, serial coronary flow velocity (0.014-in. Doppler guide wire) was measured in 42 patients before and after balloon angioplasty and again after stent placement. A subset (n = 17) also underwent intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging of the target sites after angioplasty and stenting. CVR (velocity) was computed as the ratio of adenosine-induced maximal hyperemic to basal average peak velocity. RESULTS The percent diameter stenosis decreased from (mean +/- SD) 84 +/- 13% to 37 +/- 18% after angioplasty and to 8 +/- 8% after stenting (both p < 0.05). CVR was minimally changed from 1.70 +/- 0.79 at baseline to 1.89 +/- 0.56 (p = NS) after angioplasty but increased to 2.49 +/- 0.68 after stent placement (p < 0.01 vs. before and after angioplasty). IVUS lumen cross-sectional area was significantly larger after stenting than after angioplasty (8.39 +/- 2.09 vs. 5.10 +/- 2.03 mm2, p < 0.05). Anatomic variables were related to increasing coronary flow velocity reserve (CVR vs. IVUS lumen area: r = 0.47, p < 0.005; CVR vs. quantitative coronary angiographic percent area stenosis: r = 0.58, p < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS In most cases, increases in CVR were associated with increases in coronary lumen cross-sectional area. These data suggest that impaired CVR after angioplasty is often related to the degree of residual narrowing, which at times may not be appreciated by angiography. A physiologically complemented approach to balloon angioplasty may improve procedural outcome.
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- M J Kern
- Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, Missouri 63110, USA
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Kern MJ, Bach RG, Mechem CJ, Caracciolo EA, Aguirre FV, Miller LW, Donohue TJ. Variations in normal coronary vasodilatory reserve stratified by artery, gender, heart transplantation and coronary artery disease. J Am Coll Cardiol 1996; 28:1154-60. [PMID: 8890809 DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(96)00327-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to assess the spectrum of coronary vasodilatory reserve values in patients with angiographically normal arteries who had atypical chest pain syndromes or remote coronary artery disease or were heart transplant recipients. BACKGROUND The measurement of post-stenotic coronary vasodilatory reserve, now possible in a large number of patients in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, is increasingly used for decision making. Controversy exists regarding the range of normal values obtained in angiographically normal coronary arteries in patients with different clinical presentations. METHODS Quantitative coronary arteriography was performed in 214 patients classified into three groups: 85 patients with chest pain syndromes and angiographically normal arteries (group 1); 21 patients with one normal vessel and at least one vessel with > 50% diameter lumen narrowing (group 2); and 108 heart transplant recipients (group 3). Coronary vasodilatory reserve (the ratio of maximal to basal average coronary flow velocity) was measured in 416 arteries using a 0.018-in. (0.04 cm) Doppler-tipped angioplasty guide wire. Intracoronary adenosine (8 to 18 micrograms) was used to produce maximal hyperemia. RESULTS Coronary vasodilatory reserve was higher in angiographically normal arteries in patients with chest pain syndromes (group 1:2.80 +/- 0.6 [group mean +/- SD]) than in normal vessels in patients with remote coronary artery disease (group 2: 2.5 +/- 0.95, p = 0.04); both values were significantly higher than those in the post-stenotic segment of the diseased artery (1.8 +/- 0.6, p < 0.007). Coronary vasodilatory reserve in transplant recipients (group 3) was higher than that in the other groups (3.1 +/- 0.9, p < 0.05 vs. groups 1 and 2) as a group and for individual arteries. When stratified by vessel, coronary vasodilatory reserve was similar among the left anterior descending, left circumflex and right coronary arteries. There were no differences between coronary vasodilatory reserve values on the basis of gender for patients with coronary artery disease and transplant recipients. In group 1 (chest pain), there was a trend toward higher coronary vasodilatory reserve in men than in women (2.9 +/- 0.6 vs 2.7 +/- 0.6, p = 0.07). CONCLUSIONS These findings identify a normal reference range for studies assessing the coronary circulation and post-stenotic coronary vasodilatory reserve in patients with and without coronary artery disease encountered in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.
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- M J Kern
- Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA
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Hellstrom HR. Evidence in support of the spasm of resistance vessel concept of ischemic heart disease: an update in 1993. Med Hypotheses 1993; 41:11-22. [PMID: 8231973 DOI: 10.1016/0306-9877(93)90026-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The goal of this communication is to provide more evidence for the ischemic heart disease (IHD) component of the spasm of resistance vessel (S-RV) concept of IHD and other ischemic diseases. The S-RV concept of IHD is considered to be an alternate paradigm which challenges the accepted understanding of this disorder. The theory asserts that primary S-RV directly induces symptoms in IHD, and this position is in opposition to the accepted view that symptoms are induced directly by primary occlusions of epicardial arteries by coronary artery disease, spasm, and thromboses. The theory, if valid, should be useful in reducing the impact of IHD, as it generally is accepted that the correct appreciation of basic pathophysiological mechanisms helps ensure the most appropriate prevention and treatment of disease.
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- H R Hellstrom
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Laboratory Service, Syracuse, NY 13210
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Young JB, Winters WL, Bourge R, Uretsky BF. 24th Bethesda conference: Cardiac transplantation. Task Force 4: Function of the heart transplant recipient. J Am Coll Cardiol 1993; 22:31-41. [PMID: 8509556 DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(93)90813-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Drobinski G, Desruennes M, ViFane R, Montalescot G, Dorent R, Cabrol A, Cabrol C, Gandjbakhch I, Thomas D. Coronary artery vasomotion in cardiac transplant patients with normal coronary angiograms. Int J Cardiol 1993; 40:155-60. [PMID: 8349378 DOI: 10.1016/0167-5273(93)90278-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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In 18 consecutive transplant patients with normal coronary angiograms and without calcium blocker therapy, and in 20 controls, we measured the diameters of the left anterior descending artery using quantitative coronary angiography. Measurements were effected on the frames recorded 5 min or more after intravenous administration of 0.4 mg methylergometrine, and 2 min after subsequent 2 mg bolus intracoronary isosorbide dinitrate administration. The arterial vasodilatory capacity was defined as the ratio of the difference of the largest and smallest arterial diameters and the smallest diameter. We observed normal vasoconstriction of the different coronary arterial segments. Coronary arterial diameter decrease from basal state was about 8% and was more pronounced at the distal segments of the left anterior descending artery. There was no difference of vasodilatory capacity between transplant patients and controls for the proximal and middle portion of the left anterior descending artery, while the difference was highly significant for the distal portion. In eight patients, the decrease of the vasodilatory capacity was beyond the lower limit of the normal range of values. The significance of those quantitative angiographic abnormalities is still unproven. They could be due to early vasomotor capacity blunting after transplantation and to late structural alterations of distal coronary vessels in cardiac transplant patients.
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- G Drobinski
- Department of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France
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Rossen JD, Winniford MD. Effect of increases in heart rate and arterial pressure on coronary flow reserve in humans. J Am Coll Cardiol 1993; 21:343-8. [PMID: 8425996 DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(93)90673-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to determine the effect of increases in heart rate and arterial pressure on maximal pharmacologic coronary blood flow reserve. BACKGROUND Coronary flow reserve measurements are useful in assessment of the physiologic significance of coronary lesions. However, animal studies suggest that alterations in hemodynamic status may influence coronary flow reserve independent of coronary stenosis. METHODS Coronary flow reserve was measured during cardiac catheterization with the use of a 3F coronary Doppler catheter and intracoronary papaverine. Flow reserve was measured under control conditions and during increases in heart rate produced by atrial pacing (18 patients) or during elevation of arterial pressure by intravenous phenylephrine infusion (9 patients) with intracoronary alpha-adrenergic blockade by phentolamine. RESULTS Coronary flow reserve progressively decreased from 3.7 +/- 0.9 (mean +/- SD) at the rate of 71 +/- 8 beats/min at rest to 3.0 +/- 0.6 during pacing at 100 beats/min and to 2.6 +/- 0.5 during pacing at 120 beats/min. Flow reserve decreased because of a progressive increase in rest coronary flow velocity during pacing (122 +/- 16% of control value at 100 beats/min, 139 +/- 16% of control value at 120 beats/min), whereas papaverine hyperemia peak velocity remained unchanged. Flow reserve decreased with pacing tachycardia whether the initial flow reserve was normal or depressed. Mean arterial pressure increased from 95 +/- 12 mm Hg to 130 +/- 8 mm Hg during intravenous phenylephrine infusion and to 123 +/- 10 mm Hg during combined intravenous phenylephrine and intracoronary phentolamine infusions. Coronary flow reserve was not affected by the blood pressure increases (control value 4.3 +/- 1.0, phenylephrine 4.4 +/- 1.5, phenylephrine and phentolamine 4.4 +/- 2.0). CONCLUSIONS Sudden increases in heart rate but not mean arterial pressure lead to a substantial reduction in maximal coronary blood flow reserve. These data suggest that the diagnostic utility of all flow reserve measurement techniques might be improved by standardization of heart rate during measurement or extrapolation of the measured flow reserve to that expected at a reference heart rate.
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- J D Rossen
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City
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Nitenberg A, Aptecar E, Benvenuti C, Benhaiem N, Tavolaro O, Loisance D, Cachera JP. Effects of time and previous acute rejection episodes on coronary vascular reserve in human heart transplant recipients. J Am Coll Cardiol 1992; 20:1333-8. [PMID: 1430683 DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(92)90245-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVES This study examined whether previous rejection episodes may have deleterious effects on coronary vascular reserve of heart transplant recipients months after transplantation. BACKGROUND Coronary reserve has been demonstrated to be within the normal range in long-term transplant patients without previous episodes of rejection. Conversely, acute rejection is associated with a dramatic reduction of coronary reserve, which is rapidly restored after therapy. METHODS Coronary flow velocity was measured by intracoronary Doppler catheter before and after a maximally vasodilating dose of intracoronary papaverine in 16 control subjects and in 59 transplant patients classified into three groups with respect to time after transplantation: 1 to 6 months (group 1, n = 17), 7 to 18 months (group 2, n = 22) and > 18 months (group 3, n = 20). Coronary vascular reserve was evaluated through peak/rest coronary flow velocity ratio and minimal coronary vascular resistance index. All patients had normal findings on left ventricular angiography and coronary arteriography and a normal left ventricular mass. RESULTS Arterial pressure was normal in all groups. Heart rate in the three groups of transplant patients, mean aortic pressure in groups 1 and 2, left ventricular systolic pressure in group 2 and rate-pressure product in groups 1 and 2 were higher than in control subjects. Average number of rejection episodes per patient was similar in the three groups of patients (group 1, 2.4 +/- 1.4; group 2, 2.5 +/- 1.9, and group 3, 2.1 +/- 1.3). Results showed no difference between each group of transplant patients and control subjects for peak/rest coronary flow velocity ratio (control subjects, 5.2 +/- 0.8; group 1, 5.3 +/- 1.5; group 2, 4.9 +/- 1.2, and group 3, 4.4 +/- 1.6) and for minimal coronary vascular resistance index (control subjects, 0.18 +/- 0.03; group 1, 0.18 +/- 0.04; group 2, 0.20 +/- 0.06, group 3, 0.23 +/- 0.11). In addition, patients with zero or one rejection episode had similar values of peak/rest coronary flow velocity ratio and minimal coronary vascular resistance index (4.3 +/- 1.3 and 0.23 +/- 0.10, respectively, n = 22) as did those with one or two rejection episodes (5.1 +/- 1.5 and 0.19 +/- 0.07, respectively, n = 24), and those with four or more episodes (5.2 +/- 1.4 and 0.19 +/- 0.05, respectively, n = 13). CONCLUSIONS This study showed that coronary vascular reserve remains within normal range and is independent from the number of previous episodes of rejection until late after transplantation in human heart transplant patients with angiographically normal coronary arteries.
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- A Nitenberg
- Service d'Explorations Fonctionnelles, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 251, Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire Xavier-Bichat, Paris, France
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Foult JM, Nitenberg A, Aptecar E, Azancot I. Left ventricular regional dysfunction induced by intracoronary papaverine in patients with isolated stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Am Heart J 1992; 123:1493-9. [PMID: 1595528 DOI: 10.1016/0002-8703(92)90800-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Intracoronary papaverine was administered to eight subjects with normal coronary arteries and to nine patients with single-vessel disease of the left anterior descending coronary artery. All patients had normal left ventricular function at baseline. After papaverine, global and regional ventricular function were unchanged in the normal group. In patients with left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis, intracoronary papaverine resulted in significant wall motion abnormalities and decrease of ejection fraction (from 65 +/- 6% to 54 +/- 9%, p less than 0.01). A full spectrum of responses was observed, however, in these patients, some having almost no change of regional wall motion while others had large anterior dyskinesis. No relationship was found between the severity of the stenosis and the amount of regional dysfunction induced by intracoronary papaverine. These data demonstrate the lack of relationship between the angiographic severity of a stenosis and its impact on left ventricular segmental contraction. This suggests that techniques aimed at producing wall motion abnormalities by means of coronary anterior vasodilation may not be recommended as first-line strategy for the detection of patients with coronary artery disease.
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- J M Foult
- Service d'Explorations Fonctionnelles, CHU Xavier-Bichat, Paris, France
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Schelbert HR, Stevenson LW. Toward an improved understanding and management of human heart transplant recipients. J Am Coll Cardiol 1992; 19:107-9. [PMID: 1729319 DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(92)90059-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Rechavia E, Araujo LI, De Silva R, Kushwaha SS, Lammertsma AA, Jones T, Mitchell A, Maseri A, Yacoub MH. Dipyridamole vasodilator response after human orthotopic heart transplantation: quantification by oxygen-15-labeled water and positron emission tomography. J Am Coll Cardiol 1992; 19:100-6. [PMID: 1729318 DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(92)90058-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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To assess coronary vasodilator reserve after orthotopic heart transplantation, regional myocardial perfusion was measured with oxygen-15-labeled water and dynamic positron emission tomography in 14 cardiac allograft recipients who were not experiencing rejection and who had no angiographic evidence of epicardial coronary sclerosis 15 to 73 months (mean +/- SD 43 +/- 19) after transplantation (group I). Twelve normal men with an average age of 31 years (group II) served as a control group. Regional perfusion was measured at rest and after the intravenous administration of 0.6 mg/kg body weight of dipyridamole. Rest regional myocardial blood flow was homogeneously distributed throughout the left ventricle and was significantly higher in transplant recipients (mean 1.16 +/- 0.26 ml/g per min [range 0.8 to 1.73] than in normal subjects (mean 0.85 +/- 0.13 ml/g per min [range 0.57 to 0.99]; p = 0.001) as was rest heart rate-systolic blood pressure product (rate-pressure product 11,255 +/- 2,540 vs. 7,073 +/- 1,306; p less than 0.001). After dipyridamole, perfusion in the transplant recipients was homogeneous and slightly lower (2.73 +/- 1.03 vs. 3.40 +/- 1.09 ml/g per min; p = NS), whereas rate-pressure product was slightly higher (12,179 +/- 2,266 vs. 10,885 +/- 1,895; p = NS) than the value in normal subjects. Dipyridamole vasodilator response (dipyridamole/rest myocardial blood flow) ranged from 1.23 to 4.92 (mean 2.50 +/- 1.13) in group I and from 2.65 to 5.45 (3.97 +/- 0.89) in group II (p = 0.001).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- E Rechavia
- Medical Research Council Cyclotron Unit, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, England
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Krivokapich J, Stevenson LW, Kobashigawa J, Huang SC, Schelbert HR. Quantification of absolute myocardial perfusion at rest and during exercise with positron emission tomography after human cardiac transplantation. J Am Coll Cardiol 1991; 18:512-7. [PMID: 1856420 DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(91)90608-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The maximal exercise capacity of cardiac transplant recipients is reduced compared with that of normal subjects. To determine if this reduced exercise capacity is related to inadequate myocardial perfusion during exercise, myocardial perfusion was measured noninvasively with use of positron emission tomography and nitrogen (N)-13 ammonia. Twelve transplant recipients with no angiographic evidence of accelerated coronary atherosclerosis were studied. Serial N-13 ammonia imaging was performed at rest and during supine bicycle exercise. The results were compared with those from 10 normal volunteers with a low probability of having cardiac disease. A two-compartment kinetic model for estimating myocardial perfusion was applied to the data. Transplant recipients achieved a significant lower exercise work load than did the volunteers (42 +/- 16 vs. 128 +/- 22 W), but a higher venous lactate concentration (31.3 +/- 14.9 vs. 13.7 +/- 4.1 mg/100 ml). Despite the difference in exercise work load, there was no significant difference in the cardiac work achieved by transplant recipients and normal subjects as evidenced by similar rate-pressure products of 24,000 +/- 3,400 versus 21,300 +/- 2,800 betas/min per mm Hg, respectively. In addition, myocardial blood flow during exercise was not significantly different between the two groups (1.70 +/- 0.60 vs. 1.56 +/- 0.71 ml/min per g, respectively). This study demonstrates that the myocardial flow response to the physiologic stress of exercise is appropriate in transplant recipients and does not appear to explain the decreased exercise capacity in these patients.
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- J Krivokapich
- Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine 90024-1679
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