Automated quantitative 3-dimensional modeling of the aortic valve and root by 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in normals, aortic regurgitation, and aortic stenosis: Comparison to computed tomography in normals and clinical implications

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 99-108

  Calleja, Anna ^a   Thavendiranathan, Paaladinesh ^a   Ionasec, Razvan Ioan ^d   Houle, Helene ^c   Liu, Shizhen ^a   Voigt, Ingmar ^d   Sudhakar, Chittoor Sai ^b   Crestanello, Juan ^b   Ryan, Thomas ^a   Vannan, Mani A ^a  

^a PIEDMONT HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ultrasound Division   (United States)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

3D echocardiography; 3D modeling; Aortic root; Aortic valve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ROOT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACIC AORTA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874542770     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.112.976993     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. David TE. Surgical treatment of ascending aorta and aortic root aneurysms. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 2010;52:438-444.
2. Smith CR, Leon MB, Mack MJ, Miller DC, Moses JW, Svensson LG, Tuzcu EM, Webb JG, Fontana GP, Makkar RR, Williams M, Dewey T, Kapadia S, Babaliaros V, Thourani VH, Corso P, Pichard AD, Bavaria JE, Herrmann HC, Akin JJ, Anderson WN, Wang D, Pocock SJ; PARTNER Trial Investigators. Transcatheter versus surgical aortic-valve replacement in high-risk patients. N Engl J Med. 2011;364:2187-2198.
3. Buellesfeld L, Gerckens U, Schuler G, Bonan R, Kovac J, Serruys PW, Labinaz M, den Heijer P, Mullen M, Tymchak W, Windecker S, Mueller R, Grube E. 2-year follow-up of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation using a self-expanding valve prosthesis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011;57:1650-1657.
4. Willson AB, Webb JG, Labounty TM, Achenbach S, Moss R, Wheeler M, Thompson C, Min JK, Gurvitch R, Norgaard BL, Hague CJ, Togg-weiler S, Binder R, Freeman M, Poulter R, Poulsen S, Wood DA, Leipsic J. 3-dimensional aortic annular assessment by multidetector computed tomography predicts moderate or severe paravalvular regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a multicenter retrospective analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012;59:1287-1294.
5. Rodés-Cabau J, DeLarochellière R, Dumont E. First-in-man transcath-eter aortic valve implantation of a 20-mm Edwards SAPIEN XT valve: one step forward for the treatment of patients with severe aortic stenosis and small aortic annulus. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2012;79: 789-793.
6. Kunzelman KS, Grande KJ, David TE, Cochran RP, Verrier ED. Aortic root and valve relationships. Impact on surgical repair. J Thorac Cardio-vasc Surg. 1994;107:162-170.
7. Grbic S, Ionasec R, Vitanovski D, Voigt I, Wang Y, Georgescu B, Navab N, Comaniciu D. Complete valvular heart apparatus model from 4D cardiac CT. Med Image Anal. 2012;16:1003-1014.
8. Ionasec RI, Voigt I, Georgescu B, Wang Y, Houle H, Vega-Higuera F, Na-vab N, Comaniciu D. Patient-specifc modeling and quantifcation of the aortic and mitral valves from 4-D cardiac CT and TEE. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2010;29:1636-1651.
9. Otani K, Takeuchi M, Kaku K, Sugeng L, Yoshitani H, Haruki N, Ota T, Mor-Avi V, Lang RM, Otsuji Y. Assessment of the aortic root using real-time 3D transesophageal echocardiography. Circ J. 2010;74:2649-2657.
10. Ng AC, Delgado V, van der Kley F, Shanks M, van de Veire NR, Bertini M, Nucifora G, van Bommel RJ, Tops LF, de Weger A, Tavilla G, de Roos A, Kroft LJ, Leung DY, Schuijf J, Schalij MJ, Bax JJ. Comparison of aortic root dimensions and geometries before and after transcatheter aortic valve implantation by 2-and 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography and multislice computed tomography. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2010;3:94-102.
11. Messika-Zeitoun D, Serfaty JM, Brochet E, Ducrocq G, Lepage L, Detaint D, Hyafl F, Himbert D, Pasi N, Laissy JP, Iung B, Vahanian A. Multimodal assessment of the aortic annulus diameter: implications for transcatheter aortic valve implantation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2010;55:186-194.
12. Altiok E, Koos R, Schröder J, Brehmer K, Hamada S, Becker M, Mahnken AH, Almalla M, Dohmen G, Autschbach R, Marx N, Hoffmann R. Comparison of two-dimensional and three-dimensional imaging techniques for measurement of aortic annulus diameters before transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Heart. 2011;97:1578-1584.
13. Piazza N, de Jaegere P, Schultz C, Becker AE, Serruys PW, Anderson RH. Anatomy of the aortic valvar complex and its implications for transcatheter implantation of the aortic valve. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2008;1:74-81.
14. David TE. Aortic valve repair and aortic valve-sparing operations. In: Cohn Lh, ed. Cardiac Surgery in the Adult. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2008:935-948.
15. Labrosse MR, Beller CJ, Robicsek F, Thubrikar MJ. Geometric modeling of functional trileafet aortic valves: development and clinical applications. J Biomech. 2006;39:2665-2672.
16. Thubrikar MJ, Labrosse MR, Zehr KJ, Robicsek F, Gong GG, Fowler BL. Aortic root dilatation may alter the dimensions of the valve leafets. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2005;28:850-855.
17. Akhtar M, Tuzcu EM, Kapadia SR, Svensson LG, Greenberg RK, Roselli EE, Halliburton S, Kurra V, Schoenhagen P, Sola S. Aortic root morphology in patients undergoing percutaneous aortic valve replacement: evidence of aortic root remodeling. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2009;137:950-956.
18. Knight J, Kurtcuoglu V, Muffy K, Marshall W Jr, Stolzmann P, Desbiolles L, Seifert B, Poulikakos D, Alkadhi H. Ex vivo and in vivo coronary ostial locations in humans. Surg Radiol Anat. 2009;31:597-604.