Echo rejection score: New echocardiographic approach to diagnosis of heart transplant rejection

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 176-180

  Roshanali, Farideh ^a   Mandegar, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Bagheri, Jamshid ^a   Sarzaeem, Mahmood Reza ^a   Chitsaz, Sam ^a   Alaeddini, Farshid ^a   Saidi, Bahare ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Heart transplant; Rejection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHO REJECTION SCORE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BIOPSY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 77954383244     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2009.12.045     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Hosenpud J.D., Bennett L.E., Keck B.M., Boucek M.M., Novick R.J. The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: eighteenth Official Report-2001. J Heart Lung Transplant 2001, 20:805-815.
2. Mena C., Wencker D., Krumholz H.M., McNamara R.L. Detection of heart transplant rejection in adults by echocardiographic diastolic indices: a systematic review of the literature. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2006, 19:1295-1300.
3. Baraldi-Junkins C., Levin H.R., Kasper E.K., Rayburn B.K., Herskowitz A., Baughman K.L. Complications of endomyocardial biopsy in heart transplant patients. J Heart Lung Transplant 1993, 12:63-67.
4. Crumbley A.J., Van Bakel A.B. Tricuspid valve repair for biopsy-induced regurgitation after cardiac transplantation. Ann Thorac Surg 1994, 58:1156-1160.
5. Wiklund L., Caidahl K., Kjellstrom C., Nilsson B., Svensson G., Berglin E. Tricuspid valve insufficiency as a complication of endomyocardial biopsy. Transpl Int 1992, 5(Suppl. 1):S255-S258.
6. Yankah A.C., Musci M., Weng Y., Loebe M., Zurbruegg H.R., Siniawski H., Mueller J., Hetzer R. Tricuspid valve dysfunction and surgery after orthotopic cardiac transplantation. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2000, 17:343-348.
7. Almenar Bonet L., Sanchez Lacuesta E., Martinez Dolz L., Rueda Soriano J., Arnau Vives M.A., Osa Saez A., Dicenta Gisbert F., Palencia Perez M. Sensitivity and specificity of clinical variables in the diagnosis of heart transplant rejection. Transplant Proc 2002, 34:156.
8. Almenar L., Igual B., Martinez-Dolz L., Arnau M.A., Osa A., Rueda J., Palencia M. Utility of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of heart transplant rejection. Transplant Proc 2003, 35:1962-1964.
9. Ansari A.A., Mayne A., Sundstrom J.B., Gravanis M.B., Kanter K., Sell K.W., Villinger F., Siu C.O., Herskowitz A. Frequency of hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT-) T cells in the peripheral blood of cardiac transplant recipients. A noninvasive technique for the diagnosis of allograft rejection. Circulation 1995, 92:862-874.
10. Zhao Y., Katz N.M., Lefrak E.A., Foegh M.L. Urinary thromboxane B2 in cardiac transplant patients as a screening method of rejection. Prostaglandins 1997, 54:881-889.
11. Sohn D.W., Chai I.H., Lee D.J., Kim H.C., Kim H.S., Oh B.H., Lee M.M., Park Y.B., Choi Y.S., Seo J.D., Lee Y.W. Assessment of mitral annulus velocity by Doppler tissue imaging in the evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function. J Am Coll Cardiol 1997, 30:474-480.
12. Nagueh S.F., Middleton K.J., Kopelen H.A., Zoghbi W.A., Quinones M.A. Doppler tissue imaging: a noninvasive technique for evaluation of left ventricular relaxation and estimation of filling pressures. J Am Coll Cardiol 1997, 30:1527-1533.
13. Fleiss J.L. Statistical methods for rates and proportions 1981, John Wiley, New York, pp. 38-46. 2nd ed.
14. Mankad S., Murali S., Kormos R.L., Mandarino W.A., Gorcsan J. Evaluation of the potential role of color-coded tissue Doppler echocardiography in the detection of allograft rejection in heart transplant recipients. Am Heart J 1999, 138:721-730.
15. Dandel M., Hummel M., Muller J., Wellnhofer E., Meyer R., Solowjowa N., Ewert R., Hetzer R. Reliability of tissue Doppler wall motion monitoring after heart transplantation for replacement of invasive routine screenings by optimally timed cardiac biopsies and catheterizations. Circulation 2001, 104:I184-I191.
16. Stengel S.M., Allemann Y., Zimmerli M., Lipp E., Kucher N., Mohacsi P., Seiler C. Doppler tissue imaging for assessing left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in heart transplant rejection. Heart 2001, 86:432-437.
17. Rodriguez E.R. The pathology of heart transplant biopsy specimens: revisiting the 1990 ISHLT working formulation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2003, 22:3-15.
18. Sutherland G.R., Di Salvo G., Claus P., D'Hooge J., Bijnens B. Strain and strain rate imaging: a new clinical approach to quantifying regional myocardial function. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2004, 17:788-802.
19. Urheim S., Edvardsen T., Torp H., Angelsen B., Smiseth O.A. Myocardial strain by Doppler echocardiography. Validation of a new method to quantify regional myocardial function. Circulation 2000, 102:1158-1164.
20. Voigt J.U., Lindenmeier G., Exner B., Regenfus M., Werner D., Reulbach U., Nixdorff U., Flachskampf F.A., Daniel W.G. Incidence and characteristics of segmental postsystolic longitudinal shortening in normal, acutely ischemic, and scarred myocardium. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2003, 16:415-423.
21. Weidemann F., Jamal F., Sutherland G.R., Claus P., Kowalski M., Hatle L., De Scheerder I., Bijnens B., Rademakers F.E. Myocardial function defined by strain rate and strain during alterations in inotropic states and heart rate. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2002, 283:H792-H799.
22. Yamada H., Oki T., Tabata T., Iuchi A., Ito S. Assessment of left ventricular systolic wall motion velocity with pulsed tissue Doppler imaging: comparison with peak dP/dt of the left ventricular pressure curve. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 1998, 11:442-449.
23. Jamal F., Strotmann J., Weidemann F., Kukulski T., D'Hooge J., Bijnens B., Van de Werf F., De Scheerder I., Sutherland G.R. Noninvasive quantification of the contractile reserve of stunned myocardium by ultrasonic strain rate and strain. Circulation 2001, 104:1059-1065.
24. Kukulski T., Jamal F., Herbots L., D'Hooge J., Bijnens B., Hatle L., De Scheerder I., Sutherland G.R. Identification of acutely ischemic myocardium using ultrasonic strain measurements. A clinical study in patients undergoing coronary angioplasty. J Am Coll Cardiol 2003, 41:810-819.