Abnormal regional myocardial deformation properties and increased aortic stiffness in normotensive patients with aortic coarctation despite successful correction: An ABPM, standard echocardiography and strain rate imaging study

Clinical Science

Volumn 113, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 259-266

  Di Salvo, Giovanni ^a   Pacileo, Giuseppe ^a   Limongelli, Giuseppe ^a   Verrengia, Marina ^a   Rea, Alessandra ^a   Santoro, Giuseppe ^a   Gala, Simona ^a   Castaldi, Biagio ^a   D'Andrea, Antonello ^a   Caso, Pio ^a   Russo, Maria Giovanna ^a   Calabró, Raffaele ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aortic coarctation; Aortic stiffness; Echocardiography; Hypertension; Myocardial abnormality; Strain rate imaging; Ventricular function

Indexed keywords

AORTA; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CALCULATION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CUFF; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIGIDITY; SEX; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRAIN RATE; SYSTOLE; THORACIC AORTA;

ADOLESCENT; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC COARCTATION; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; RHEOLOGY; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34548503413     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/CS20070085     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Cohen, M., Fuster, V., Steele, P. M., Driscoll, D. and McGoon, D. C. (1989) Coarctation of the aorta: long-term follow-up and prediction of outcome after surgical correction. Circulation 80, 840-845
2. Clarkson, P. M., Nicholson, M. R., Barratt-Boyes, B. G., Neutze, J. M. and Whitlock, R. M. (1983) Results after repair of coarctation of the aorta beyond infancy: a 10 to 28 years follow-up with particular reference to late systemic hypertension. Am. J. Cardiol. 81, 1541-1548
3. Seirafi, P. A., Warner, K. G., Geggel, R. L., Payne, D. D. and Cleveland, R. J. (1998) Repair of aortic coarctation during infancy minimizes the risk of late hypertension. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 66, 1378-1382
4. Meyer, A. A., Joharchi, M. S., Kundt, G., Schuff-Werner, P., Steinhoff, G. and Kienast, W. (2005) Predicting the risk of early atherosclerotic disease development in children after repair of aortic coarctation. Eur. Heart J. 26, 617-622
5. Kimball, T. R., Reynolds, J. M., Mays, W. A., Khoury, P., Claytor, R. P. and Daniels, S. R. (1994) Persistent hyperdynamic cardiovascular state at rest and during exercise in children after successful repair of coarctation of the aorta. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 24, 194-200
6. Kimball, B. P., Shurvell, B. L., Houle, S., Fulop, J. C., Rakowski, H. and McLaughlin, P. R. (1986) Persistent ventricular adaptations in postoperative coarctation of the aorta. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 8, 172-178
7. Moskowitz, W. B., Schieken, R. M., Mosteller, M. and Bossano, R. (1990) Altered systolic and diastolic function in children after "successful" repair of coarctation of the aorta. Am. Heart J. 120, 103-109
8. Carpenter, M. A., Dammann, J. F., Watson, D. D., Jedeikin, R., Tompkins, D. G. and Beller, G. A. (1985) Left ventricular hyperkinesias at rest and during exercise in normotensive patients 2 to 27 years after Coarctation repair. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 6, 879-886
9. Leandro, J., Smallhorn, J. F., Benson, L. et al. (1992) Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and left ventricular mass and function after successful surgical repair of coarctation of the aorta. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 20, 197-204
10. Sutherland, G. R., Di Salvo, G., Claus, P., D'hooge, J. and Bijnens, B. (2004) Strain and strain rate imaging: a new clinical approach to quantifying regional myocardial function. J. Am. Soc. Echocardiogr. 17, 788-802
11. D'hooge, J., Heimdal, A., Jamal, F. et al. (2000) Regional strain and strain rate measurements by cardiac ultrasound: principles, implementation and limitations. Eur. J. Echocardiogr. 1, 154-170
12. Weidemann, F., Breunig, F., Beer, M. et al. (2005) The variation of morphological and functional cardiac manifestation in Fabry disease: potential implications for the time course of the disease. Eur. Heart J. 26, 1221-1227
13. Wong, C. Y., O'Moore-Sullivan, T., Leano, R., Byrne, N., Beller, E. and Marwick, T. H. (2004) Alterations of left ventricular myocardial characteristics associated with obesity. Circulation 110, 3081-3087
14. Poulsen, S. H., Andersen, N. H., Heickendorff, L. and Mogensen, C. E. (2005) Relation between plasma amino-terminal propeptide of procollagen type III and left ventricular longitudinal strain in essential hypertension. Heart 91, 624-629
15. Mottram, P. M., Leano, R. and Marwick, T. H. (2003) Usefulness of B-type natriuretic peptide in hypertensive patients with exertional dyspnea and normal left ventricular ejection fraction and correlation with new echocardiographic indexes of systolic and diastolic function. Am. J. Cardiol. 92, 1434-1438
16. Poulsen, S. H., Andersen, N. H., Ivarsen, P. I., Mogensen, C. E. and Egeblad, H. (2003) Doppler tissue imaging reveals systolic dysfunction in patients with hypertension and apparent "isolated" diastolic dysfunction. J. Am. Soc. Echocardiogr. 16, 724-731
17. Yuda, S., Short, L., Leano, R. and Marwick, T. H. (2002) Myocardial abnormalities in hypertensive patients with normal and abnormal left ventricular filling: a study of ultrasound tissue characterization and strain. Clin. Sci. 103, 283-293
18. de Divitiis, M., Pilla, C., Kattenhorn, M. et al. (2003) Ambulatory blood pressure, left ventricular mass, and conduit artery function late after successful repair of Coarctation of the aorta. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 41, 2259-2265
19. de Divitiis, M., Pilla, C., Kattenhorn, M. et al. (2001) Vascular dysfunction after reapir of Coarctation of the aorta: imact of early surgery. Circulation 104, I165-I170
20. Soergel, M., Kirschstein, M., Busch, C. et al. (1997) Oscillometric 24-h blood pressure values in healthy children and adolescents: a multicenter trial including 1141 subjects. J. Pediatr. 130, 178-184
21. Gibbons, R. J., Balady, G. J., Bricker, J. T. et al. (2002) ACC/AHA 2002 guideline update for exercise testing: summary article: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1997 Exercise Testing Guidelines). Circulation 106, 1883-1892
22. Fletcher, G. F., Balady, G. J., Amsterdam, E. A. et al. (2001) Exercise standards for testing and training: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association. Circulation 104, 1694-1740
23. Heck, H., Rost, R. and Hollmann, W. (1984) Normwerte des Blutdrucks bei der Fahrradergometrie. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin 7, 243-249
24. de Simone, G., Daniels, S. R., Devereux, R. B. et al. (1992) Left ventricular mass and body size in normotensive children and adults: assessment of allometric relations and impact of overweight. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 20, 1251-1260
25. Douglas, P. S., Reichek, N., Plappert, T., Muhammad, A. and St John Sutton, M. G. (1987) Comparison of echocardiographic methods for assessment of left ventricular shortening and wall stress. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 9, 945-951
26. Ikonomidis, I., Lekakis, J., Stamatelopoulos, K., Markomihelakis, N., Kaklamanis, P. and Mavrikakis, M. (2004) Aortic elastic properties and left ventricular diastolic function in patients with adamantiades-Behcet's disease. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 43, 1075-1081
27. Greenberg, N. L., Firstenberg, M. S., Castro, P. L. et al. (2002) Doppler-derived myocardial systolic strain rate is a strong index of left ventricular contractility. Circulation 105, 99-105
28. Weidemann, F., Jamal, F., Sutherland, G. R. et al. (2002) Myocardial function defined by strain rate and strain during alterations in inotropic states and heart rate. Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol. 283, H792-H799
29. Efron, B., Tibshirani, R. and Robert, J. (1983) An Introduction to the Bootstrap. Chapman & Hall, London
30. Shimizu, G., Zile, M. R., Blaustein, A. S. and Gaasch, W. H. (1985) Left ventricular chamber filling and midwall fiber lengthening in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy: overestimation of fiber velocities by conventional midwall measurements. Circulation 71, 266-272
31. Shimizu, G., Hirota, Y., Kita, Y., Kawamura, K., Saito, T. and Gaasch, W. H. (1991) Left ventricular midwall mechanics in systemic arterial hypertension. Myocardial function is depressed in pressure-overload hypertrophy. Circulation 83, 1676-1684
32. Palmon, L. C., Reichek, N., Yeon, S. B. et al. (1994) Intramural myocardial shortening in hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy with normal pump function. Circulation 89, 122-131
33. Schwartzkopff, B., Motz, W., Vogt, M. and Strauer, B. E. (1993) Heart failure on the basis of hypertension. Circulation 87, IV66-IV72
34. Gentles, T. L., Sanders, S. P. and Golan, S. D. (2000) Misrepresentation of left ventricular contractile function by endocardial indexes: clinical implications after coarctation repair. Am. Heart J. 140, 585-595
35. Aoyagi, T., Mirsky, I. and Flannagan, M. F. (1992) Myocardial function in immature and mature sheep with pressure-overload hypertrophy. Am. J. Physiol. 262, H1036-H1048
36. Aoyagi, T., Fujii, A. M., Flanagan, M. F. et al. (1993) Transition from compensated hypertrophy to intrinsic myocardial dysfunction during development of left ventricular pressure overload-hypertrophy in conscious sheep. Systolic dysfunction precedes diastolic dysfunction. Circulation 88, 2415-2425
37. Mirsky, I., Pfeffer, J. M., Pfeffer, M. A. and Braunwald, E. (1983) The contractile state as a major determinant in the evolution of left ventricular dysfunction in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Circ. Res. 53, 767-778
38. de Simone, G., Devereux, R. B., Celentano, A. and Roman, M. J. (1999) Left ventricular chamber and wall mechanics in the presence of concentric geometry. J. Hypertens. 17, 1001-1006
39. De Wolf, D., Foubert, L., Suys, B. et al. (2003) The midwall stress velocity relationship during manipulation of afterload. Pediatr. Cardiol. 24, 263-269
40. Gentles, T. L., Cowan, B. R., Occleshaw, C. J., Colan, S. D. and Young, A. A. (2005) Midwall shortening after Coarctation repair: the effect of through-plane motion on single-plane indices of left ventricular function. J. Am. Soc. Echocardiogr. 18, 1131-1136
41. Gidding, S. S., Rocchini, A. P., Moorehead, C., Schork, M. A. and Rosenthal, A. (1985) Increased forearm vascular reactivity in patients with hypertension after repair of coarctation. Circulation 71, 495-499
42. Vriend, J. W., de Groot, E., de Waal, T. T., Zijta, F. M., Kastelein, J. J. and Mulder, B. J. (2006) Increased carotid and femoral intima-media thickness in patients after repair of aortic coarctation: influence of early repair. Am. Heart J. 151, 242-247
43. Toro-Salazar, O. H., Steinberger, J., Thomas, W., Rocchini, A. P., Carpenter, B. and Moller, J. H. (2002) Long-term follow-up of patients after coarctation of the aorta repair. Am. J. Cardiol. 89, 541-547