Quantification of mitral valve regurgitation: New solutions provided by 3D echocardiography

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Maragiannis, Dimitrios ^a   Little, Stephen H ^a  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D color Doppler; 3D echocardiography; Mitral valve regurgitation; Vena contracta

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84879363607     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-013-0384-0     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Nkomo VT, Gardin JM, Skelton TN, Gottdiener JS, Scott CG, Enriquez-Sarano M. Burden of valvular heart diseases: a population-based study. Lancet. 2006;368:1005-11. (Pubitemid 44353666)
2. Iung B, Baron G, Butchart EG, Delahaye F, Gohlke-Bärwolf C, LevangOW, et al. A. A prospective survey of patients with valvular heart disease in Europe: The Euro Heart Survey on Valvular Heart Disease. Eur Heart J. 2003;24:1231-43. (Pubitemid 36834640)
3. Avierinos JF, Gersh BJ, Melton III LJ, Bailey KR, Shub C, Nishimura RA, et al. Natural history of asymptomatic mitral valve prolapse in the community. Circulation. 2002;106:1355-61. (Pubitemid 35013038)
4. Enriquez-Sarano M, Avierinos JF, Messika-Zeitoun D, Detaint D, Capps M, Nkomo V, et al. Quantitative determinants of the outcome of asymptomatic mitral regurgitation. N Engl J Med. 2005;352:875-83. (Pubitemid 40300296)
5. Grigioni F, Enriquez-Sarano M, Zehr KJ, Bailey KR, Tajik AJ. Ischemic mitral regurgitation: long-term outcome and prognostic implications with quantitative Doppler assessment. Circulation. 2001;103:1759-64. (Pubitemid 32291413)
6. ACC/AHA 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (writing committee to revise the 1998 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease): developed in collaboration with the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists: endorsed by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines; Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists; Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions; Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Circulation. 2006;114:e84-231.
7. Vahanian A, Alfieri O, Andreotti F, Antunes MJ, Barón-Esquivias G, Baumgartner H, et al. Guidelines on the management of valvular heart disease (version 2012): the Joint Task Force on the Management of Valvular Heart Disease of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines (CPG), Bax JJ, Baumgartner H, Ceconi C, Dean V, Deaton C, Fagard R, et al. Document Reviewers, Popescu BA, Von Segesser L, Badano LP, Bunc M, Claeys MJ, Drinkovic N, et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2012;42:S1-44.
8. Tribouilloy CM, Enriquez-Sarano M, Schaff HV, Orszulak TA, Bailey KR, Tajik AJ, et al. Impact of preoperative symptoms on survival after surgical correction of organic mitral regurgitation: rationale for optimizing surgical indications. Circulation. 1999;99:400-5. (Pubitemid 29051266)
9. ZoghbiWA, Enriquez-Sarano M, Foster E, Grayburn PA, Kraft CD, Levine RA, et al. American Society of Echocardiography. Recommendations for evaluation of the severity of native valvular regurgitation with two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2003;16:777-802. (Pubitemid 37391035)
10. Thavendiranathan P, Phelan D, Collier P, Thomas JD, Flamm SD, Marwick TH. Quantitative assessment of mitral regurgitation: how best to do it. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012;5:1161-75.
11. Little SH, Pirat B, Kumar R, Igo SR, McCulloch M, Hartley CJ, et al. Three-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography for direct measurement of vena contracta area in mitral regurgitation: in vitro validation and clinical experience. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2008;1:695-704.
12. Kahlert P, Plicht B, Schenk IM, Janosi RA, Erbel R, Buck T. Direct assessment of size and shape of noncircular vena contracta area in functional vs organic mitral regurgitation using real-time threedimensional echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2008;21:912-21.
13. Marsan NA, Westenberg JJ, Ypenburg C, Delgado V, van Bommel RJ, Roes SD, et al. Proximal flow convergence region as assessed by real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography: challenging the hemispheric assumption. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2009;2:1245-52.
14. Shanks M, Siebelink HM, Delgado V, van de Veire NR, Ng AC, Sieders A, et al. Quantitative assessment of mitral regurgitation: comparison between three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2010;3:694-700.
15. Zeng X, Levine RA, Hua L, Morris EL, Kang Y, Flaherty M, et al. Diagnostic value of vena contracta area in the quantification of mitral regurgitation severity by color Doppler 3D echocardiography. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2011;4:506-13.
16. Hyodo E, Iwata S, Tugcu A, Arai K, Shimada K, Muro T, et al. Direct measurement of multiple vena contracta areas for assessing the severity of mitral regurgitation using 3D TEE. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012;5:669-76.
17. Yosefy C, Levine RA, Solis J, Vaturi M, Handschumacher MD, Hung J. Proximal flow convergence region as assessed by real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography: challenging the hemispheric assumption. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2007;20:389-96. (Pubitemid 46497619)
18. Little SH, Igo SR, Pirat B, McCulloch M, Hartley CJ, Nosé Y, et al. In vitro validation of real-time three-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography for direct measurement of proximal isovelocity surface area in mitral regurgitation. Am J Cardiol. 2007;99:1440-7. (Pubitemid 46686649)
19. Matsumura Y, Fukuda S, Tran H, Greenberg NL, Agler DA, Wada N, et al. Geometry of the proximal isovelocity surface area in mitral regurgitation by 3-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography: difference between functional mitral regurgitation and prolapse regurgitation. Am Heart J. 2008;155:231-8.
20. Matsumura Y, Saracino G, Sugioka K, Tran H, Greenberg NL, Wada N, et al. Determination of regurgitant orifice area with the use of a new three-dimensional flow convergence geometric assumption in functional mitral regurgitation. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2008;21:1251-6.
21. de Agustín JA, Marcos-Alberca P, Fernandez-Golfin C, Gonçalves A, Feltes G, Nuñez-Gil IJ, et al. Direct measurement of proximal isovelocity surface area by single-beat three-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography in mitral regurgitation: a validation study. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2012;25:815-23.
22. Thavendiranathan P, Liu S, Datta S, Rajagopalan S, Ryan T, Igo SR, et al. Quantification of chronic functional mitral regurgitation by automated 3-D peak and integrated proximal isovelocity surface area and stroke volume techniques using real-time 3-D volume color Doppler echocardiography: in vitro and clinical validation. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012. [Epub ahead of print]. This article describes a unique method of automatic computation of MR severity using RT-VCFD from single beat volumetric data.
23. Thavendiranathan P, Liu S, Datta S, Walls M, Nitinunu A, Van Houten T, et al. Automated quantification of mitral inflow and aortic outflow stroke volumes by three-dimensional real-time volume color-flow Doppler transthoracic echocardiography: comparison with pulsed-wave Doppler and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2012;25:56-65.