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Spampinato RA, Marin-Cuartas M, van Kampen A, Fahr F, Sieg F, Strotdrees E, Jahnke C, Klaeske K, Wiesner K, Morningstar JE, Nagata Y, Izquierdo-Garcia D, Dieterlen MT, Norris RA, Levine RA, Paetsch I, Borger MA. Left ventricular fibrosis and CMR tissue characterization of papillary muscles in mitral valve prolapse patients. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING 2024; 40:213-224. [PMID: 37891450 DOI: 10.1007/s10554-023-02985-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023]
Abstract
PURPOSE Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is associated with left ventricle (LV) fibrosis, including the papillary muscles (PM), which is in turn linked to malignant arrhythmias. This study aims to evaluate comprehensive tissue characterization of the PM by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging and its association with LV fibrosis observed by intraoperative biopsies. METHODS MVP patients with indication for surgery due to severe mitral regurgitation (n = 19) underwent a preoperative CMR with characterization of the PM: dark-appearance on cine, T1 mapping, conventional bright blood (BB) and dark blood (DB) late gadolinium enhancement (LGE). CMR T1 mapping was performed on 21 healthy volunteers as controls. LV inferobasal myocardial biopsies were obtained in MVP patients and compared to CMR findings. RESULTS MVP patients (54 ± 10 years old, 14 male) had a dark-appearance of the PM with higher native T1 and extracellular volume (ECV) values compared with healthy volunteers (1096 ± 78ms vs. 994 ± 54ms and 33.9 ± 5.6% vs. 25.9 ± 3.1%, respectively, p < 0.001). Seventeen MVP patients (89.5%) had fibrosis by biopsy. BB-LGE + in LV and PM was identified in 5 (26.3%) patients, while DB-LGE + was observed in LV in 9 (47.4%) and in PM in 15 (78.9%) patients. DB-LGE + in PM was the only technique that showed no difference with detection of LV fibrosis by biopsy. Posteromedial PM was more frequently affected than the anterolateral (73.7% vs. 36.8%, p = 0.039) and correlated with biopsy-proven LV fibrosis (Rho 0.529, p = 0.029). CONCLUSIONS CMR imaging in MVP patients referred for surgery shows a dark-appearance of the PM with higher T1 and ECV values compared with healthy volunteers. The presence of a positive DB-LGE at the posteromedial PM by CMR may serve as a better predictor of biopsy-proven LV inferobasal fibrosis than conventional CMR techniques.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ricardo A Spampinato
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University, Leipzig Heart Center, Struempellstrasse 39, 04289, Leipzig, Germany.
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University, Leipzig Heart Center, Struempellstrasse 39, 04289, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Antonia van Kampen
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University, Leipzig Heart Center, Struempellstrasse 39, 04289, Leipzig, Germany
- Division of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Florian Fahr
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University, Leipzig Heart Center, Struempellstrasse 39, 04289, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Franz Sieg
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University, Leipzig Heart Center, Struempellstrasse 39, 04289, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Elfriede Strotdrees
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University, Leipzig Heart Center, Struempellstrasse 39, 04289, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Cosima Jahnke
- Department of Cardiology and Electrophysiology, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Kristin Klaeske
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University, Leipzig Heart Center, Struempellstrasse 39, 04289, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Karoline Wiesner
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University, Leipzig Heart Center, Struempellstrasse 39, 04289, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Jordan E Morningstar
- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
| | - Yasufumi Nagata
- Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - David Izquierdo-Garcia
- The Institute for Innovation in Imaging, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Maja-Theresa Dieterlen
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University, Leipzig Heart Center, Struempellstrasse 39, 04289, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Russell A Norris
- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
| | - Robert A Levine
- Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Ingo Paetsch
- Department of Cardiology and Electrophysiology, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Michael A Borger
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University, Leipzig Heart Center, Struempellstrasse 39, 04289, Leipzig, Germany
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