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Effect of age on exercise capacity and cardiac reserve in patients with pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum after biventricular repair
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance volume 14, Article number: P123 (2012)
Summary
Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum (PAIVS) is a rare type of congenital heart disease. Biventricular surgical repair is considered to be the optimal treatment option as it provides satisfactory results in terms of survival and clinical outcome during the early follow up period. However the long term clinical fellow-up studies are limited. In the present study we evaluated the cardiac response to the physical and pharmacological stress using dobutamine stress MRI in children and young adults with PAIVS after biventricular repair.
Background
In patients with pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum (PAIVS) biventricular repair is considered to be the optimal treatment option in the absence of significant right ventricular (RV) hypoplasia. However, long term clinical outcome studies are limited. We evaluated exercise capacity and cardiac function during pharmacological stress in children and young adults with PAIVS after biventricular repair.
Methods
Ten PAIVS patients after biventricular repair, median age 12 years (range 9 - 42 years), underwent a cardiopulmonary exercise test, dobutamine stress magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and delayed contrast enhancement (DCE) MRI.
Results
The patients' age negatively correlated with exercise capacity (r = -0.95, p = < 0.001) as well as left and right ventricular stroke volume (SV) response to pharmacological stress (r = -0.69, p = 0.02; r = -0.73, p = 0.01, respectively- Figure 1). Furthermore, older age was associated with decreased RV E/A volume ratio and increased pulmonary late diastolic forward flow percentage (r = -0.70, p = 0.02 and r = - 0.80, p = 0.005, respectively) RV E/A volume ratio positively correlated with RV-SV response to DS-MRI (r = 0.77, p = 0.009). VO2max and O2-pulse during physical stress correlated with biventricular SV response to DS-MRI (Figure 2). No right or left ventricular myocardial fibrosis was detected.
Conclusions
In PAIVS patients after biventricular repair exercise capacity and cardiac reserve decrease with age. These findings appear to be related to impaired diastolic RV function and decreased RV filling, indicating that the function of the relatively small RV deteriorates with time.
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Romeih, S., Groenink, M., van der Plas, M.N. et al. Effect of age on exercise capacity and cardiac reserve in patients with pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum after biventricular repair. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 14 (Suppl 1), P123 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-14-S1-P123
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-14-S1-P123