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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
Volume 326, Issue -, Pages 206-212Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2020.11.046
Keywords
Thoracic aorta dilation; Bicuspid aortic valve; Arterial stiffness; Pulse wave velocity; MRI
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Funding
- CONICET, Argentina [1220130100480]
- MINCyT, Argentina [2016-0945]
- ESME Sudria (France)
- ECOS-SUD project (France-Argentina) [A15S04]
- FRM (France) [ING20150532487]
- Interface pour le Vivant (IPV) PhD program (Sorbonne Universite, France)
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This study aimed to describe aortic stiffness using MRI in patients with ascending thoracic aorta aneurysm and different aortic valve types. The results showed that patients had larger aortic diameters but stiffness indices were associated with age, blood pressure, and diameter. There were differences between TAV-ATAA and BAV groups compared to controls.
Background: We aimed to provide a comprehensive aortic stiffness description using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with ascending thoracic aorta aneurysm and tricuspid (TAV-ATAA) or bicuspid (BAV) aortic valve. Methods: This case-control study included 18 TAV-ATAA and 19 BAV patients, with no aortic valve stenosis/severe regurgitation, who were 1:1 age-, gender- and central blood pressures (BP)-matched to healthy volunteers. Each underwent simultaneous aortic MRI and BP measurements. 3D anatomical MRI provided aortic diameters. Stiffness indices included: regional ascending (AA) and descending (DA) aorta pulse wave velocity (PWV) from 4D flow MRI: local AA and DA strain, distensibility and theoretical Bramwell-Hill (BH) model-based PWV, as well as regional arch PWV from 2D flow MRI. Results: Patient groups had significantly higher maximal M diameter (median[interquartile range], TAV-ATM: 47.5[42.0-51.3]mm, BAV: 45.0[41.0-47.0]mm) than their respective controls (29.1[26.8-31.8] and 28.1 [26.0-32.0]mm. p < 0.0001), while BP were similar (p >= 0.25). Stiffness indices were significantly associated with age (p >= 0.33), mean BP (arch PWV: rho = 025, p = 0.05; DA distensibility: rho = -0.30, p = 0.02) or AA diameter (arch PWV: rho = 0.28,p = 0.03; DA PWV: rho = 0.32, p = 0.009). None of them, however, was significantly different between TAV-ATAA or BAV patients and their matched controls. Finally, while direct PWV measures were significantly correlated to BH-PWV estimates in controls (rho >= 0.40), associations were non-significant in TAV-ATAA and BAV groups (p >= 0.18). Conclusions: The overlap of MRI-derived aortic stiffness indices between patients with TAV or BAV aortopathy and matched controls highlights another heterogeneous feature of aortopathy, and suggests the urgent need for more sensitive indices which might help better discriminate such diseases. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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