Evaluation of the role of endomyocardial biopsy in 851 patients with unexplained heart failure from 2000-2009

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 676-684

  Bennett, Mosi K ^a   Gilotra, Nisha A ^b   Harrington, Colleen ^b   Rao, Shaline ^b   Dunn, Justin M ^a   Freitag, Tasha B ^b   Halushka, Marc K ^c   Russell, Stuart D ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Departments of Medicine   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Cardiomyopathies; Diagnosis; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART BLOCK; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART TUMOR; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AGED; BIOPSY; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS; HEART FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHY, RESTRICTIVE; COMORBIDITY; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84884712541     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.112.000087     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Felker GM, Thompson RE, Hare JM, Hruban RH, Clemetson DE, Howard DL, Baughman KL, Kasper EK. Underlying causes and longterm survival in patients with initially unexplained cardiomyopathy. N Engl J Med. 2000;342:1077-1084.
2. Miller LW, Labovitz AJ, McBride LA, Pennington DG, Kanter K. Echocardiography-guided endomyocardial biopsy. A 5-year experience. Circulation. 1988;78(5 Pt 2):III99-II102.
3. Deckers JW, Hare JM, Baughman KL. Complications of transvenous right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy in adult patients with cardiomyopathy: a seven-year survey of 546 consecutive diagnostic procedures in a tertiary referral center. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1992;19:43-47.
4. Holzmann M, Nicko A, Kühl U, Noutsias M, Poller W, Hoffmann W, Morguet A, Witzenbichler B, Tschöpe C, Schultheiss HP, Pauschinger M. Complication rate of right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy via the femoral approach: a retrospective and prospective study analyzing 3048 diagnostic procedures over an 11-year period. Circulation. 2008;118:1722-1728.
5. Yilmaz A, Kindermann I, Kindermann M, Mahfoud F, Ukena C, Athanasiadis A, Hill S, Mahrholdt H, Voehringer M, Schieber M, Klingel K, Kandolf R, Böhm M, Sechtem U. Comparative evaluation of left and right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy: differences in complication rate and diagnostic performance. Circulation. 2010;122:900-909.
6. Ardehali H, Qasim A, Cappola T, Howard D, Hruban R, Hare JM, Baughman KL, Kasper EK. Endomyocardial biopsy plays a role in diagnosing patients with unexplained cardiomyopathy. Am Heart J. 2004;147:919-923.
7. Cooper LT, Baughman KL, Feldman AM, Frustaci A, Jessup M, Kuhl U, Levine GN, Narula J, Starling RC, Towbin J, Virmani R; American Heart Association; American College of Cardiology; European Society of Cardiology; Heart Failure Society of America; Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology. The role of endomyocardial biopsy in the management of cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the European Society of Cardiology. Endorsed by the Heart Failure Society of America and the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007;50:1914-1931.
8. Leone O, Veinot JP, Angelini A, Baandrup UT, Basso C, Berry G, Bruneval P, Burke M, Butany J, Calabrese F, d'Amati G, Edwards WD, Fallon JT, Fishbein MC, Gallagher PJ, Halushka MK, McManus B, Pucci A, Rodriguez ER, Saffitz JE, Sheppard MN, Steenbergen C, Stone JR, Tan C, Thiene G, van der Wal AC, Winters GL. 2011 consensus statement on endomyocardial biopsy from the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology and the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology. Cardiovasc Pathol. 2012;21:245-274.
9. Aretz HT, Billingham ME, Edwards WD, Factor SM, Fallon JT, Fenoglio JJ Jr, Olsen EG, Schoen FJ. Myocarditis. A histopathologic definition and classification. Am J Cardiovasc Pathol. 1987;1:3-14.
10. Maleszewski JJ, Murray DL, Dispenzieri A, Grogan M, Pereira NL, Jenkins SM, Judge DP, Caturegli P, Vrana JA, Theis JD, Dogan A, Halushka MK. Relationship between monoclonal gammopathy and cardiac amyloid type. Cardiovasc Pathol. 2013;22:189-194.
11. Basso C, Ronco F, Marcus F, Abudureheman A, Rizzo S, Frigo AC, Bauce B, Maddalena F, Nava A, Corrado D, Grigoletto F, Thiene G. Quantitative assessment of endomyocardial biopsy in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia: an in vitro validation of diagnostic criteria. Eur Heart J. 2008;29:2760-2771.
12. Cooper LT Jr, Hare JM, Tazelaar HD, Edwards WD, Starling RC, Deng MC, Menon S, Mullen GM, Jaski B, Bailey KR, Cunningham MW, Dec GW; Giant Cell Myocarditis Treatment Trial Investigators. Usefulness of immunosuppression for giant cell myocarditis. Am J Cardiol. 2008;102:1535-1539.
13. Shields RC, Tazelaar HD, Berry GJ, Cooper LT Jr. The role of right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy for idiopathic giant cell myocarditis. J Card Fail. 2002;8:74-78.
14. Cooper LT Jr, Berry GJ, Shabetai R. Idiopathic giant-cell myocarditis- natural history and treatment. Multicenter Giant Cell Myocarditis Study Group Investigators. N Engl J Med. 1997;336:1860-1866.
15. Frustaci A, Russo MA, Chimenti C. Randomized study on the efficacy of immunosuppressive therapy in patients with virus-negative inflammatory cardiomyopathy: the TIMIC study. Eur Heart J. 2009;30:1995-2002.
16. Falk RH. Diagnosis and management of the cardiac amyloidoses. Circulation. 2005;112:2047-2060.
17. Rahman JE, Helou EF, Gelzer-Bell R, Thompson RE, Kuo C, Rodriguez ER, Hare JM, Baughman KL, Kasper EK. Noninvasive diagnosis of biopsy-proven cardiac amyloidosis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004;43:410-415.
18. Marcus FI, McKenna WJ, Sherrill D, Basso C, Bauce B, Bluemke DA, Calkins H, Corrado D, Cox MG, Daubert JP, Fontaine G, Gear K, Hauer R, Nava A, Picard MH, Protonotarios N, Saffitz JE, Sanborn DM, Steinberg JS, Tandri H, Thiene G, Towbin JA, Tsatsopoulou A, Wichter T, Zareba W. Diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/ dysplasia: proposed modification of the task force criteria. Circulation. 2010;121:1533-1541.
19. Paul M, Stypmann J, Gerss J, Wirdeier S, Zumhagen S, Breithardt G, Schulze-Bahr E, Wichter T. Safety of endomyocardial biopsy in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: a study analyzing 161 diagnostic procedures. J Am Coll Cardiol. Cardiovasc Interv. 2011;4:1142-1148.
20. Uemura A, Morimoto S, Hiramitsu S, Kato Y, Ito T, Hishida H. Histologic diagnostic rate of cardiac sarcoidosis: evaluation of endomyocardial biopsies. Am Heart J. 1999;138(2 Pt 1):299-302.
21. Dec GW. Introduction to clinical myocarditis. In: Cooper LT, ed. Myocarditis From Bench to Bedside. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2003:257-281.
22. Mason JW, O'Connell JB, Herskowitz A, Rose NR, McManus BM, Billingham ME, Moon TE. A clinical trial of immunosuppressive therapy for myocarditis. The Myocarditis Treatment Trial Investigators. N Engl J Med. 1995;333:269-275.
23. McNamara DM, Holubkov R, Starling RC, Dec GW, Loh E, Torre-Amione G, Gass A, Janosko K, Tokarczyk T, Kessler P, Mann DL, Feldman AM. Controlled trial of intravenous immune globulin in recent-onset dilated cardiomyopathy. Circulation. 2001;103: 2254-2259.
24. Grogan M, Redfield MM, Bailey KR, Reeder GS, Gersh BJ, Edwards WD, Rodeheffer RJ. Long-term outcome of patients with biopsy-proved myocarditis: comparison with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1995;26:80-84.
25. Yoshida A, Ishibashi-Ueda H, Yamada N, Kanzaki H, Hasegawa T, Takahama H, Amaki M, Asakura M, Kitakaze M. Direct comparison of the diagnostic capability of cardiac magnetic resonance and endomyocardial biopsy in patients with heart failure. Eur J Heart Fail. 2013;15:166-175.