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New insights in swine model of ventricular tachycardia using quantitative myocardial tissue characterization
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance volume 17, Article number: Q132 (2015)
Background
Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is often responsible for sudden cardiac death and is generally triggers by the presence of reentry circuits related to a chronic myocardial scar. We have recently developed a novel swine model of VT, where sustained monomorphic reentrant VT can be induced in all animals. This new model offers exciting opportunities for better understanding the underlying substrate of VT, as well as for the development of new mapping and ablation strategies. In this study, we sought to provide in-vivo tissue characterization of this model using myocardial tissue characterization techniques of T1, T2 and high-resolution LGE.
Methods
A novel swine model of reentrant VT was induced in 11 Yorkshire swine by 180 min balloon occlusion of the mid left anterior coronary artery. Each animal underwent an in-vivo CMR exam using a 1.5 T Philips scanner at 52±13 days after infarction, followed by an electrophysiology study with programmed stimulation to assess for VT inducibility. During imaging, each animal was sedated, intubated and mechanically ventilated. Native T1 mapping using MOLLI (1) and T2 mapping (2) were performed and followed by bolus injection of 0.2 mmol/kg of gadobenate dimeglumine and post-contrast T1 mapping using MOLLI. All these parametric sequences used ECG-triggered single shot acquisitions with balanced-SSFP imaging readout and the following parameters: (TR/TE=4.3/2.1ms, flip angle=35°(T1 mapping)/85°(T2 mapping), FOV=360×276 mm2, voxel size=2×2 mm2, slice thickness=8 mm, 10 slices (T1 mapping)/5 slices(T2 mapping), SENSE factor=2). Finally, high resolution LGE (3) was performed using a free breathing navigator-gated inversion recovery gradient echo sequence with the following parameters (TR/TE/α=6.5/3.0ms/25˚, FOV=270×270×112 mm3, voxel size=1×1×1 mm3, compressed sensing factor=4). All imaging was performed in the short axis orientation. Analysis was performed offline using an in-house platform. The areas of enhancement in LGE data was used to visually guide a manual segmentation of the corresponding areas in all T1 and T2 maps. A similar approach was used to delineate an area of healthy myocardium all T1 and T2 maps. T1/T2 maps with artifacts were discarded from the analysis. Native T1 times and T2 times are reported for both "remote area" and "area of enhancement".
Results
Sustained reentrant VT could be induced in all animals. In-vivo CMR revealed that areas with elevated native T1 times and T2 times were in good agreement with areas depicting reduced post-contrast T1 times and enhancement in LGE (Figure 1). Over all animals, area with enhancement as defined by LGE had higher native T1 times (1276±45 vs. 1047±29, p<0.001) and higher T2 times (85±6 vs. 52±4, p<0.001) than remote area (Figure 2).
Conclusions
In this swine model of reentrant VT, areas of LGE hyperenhancement are associated with elevated native T1 times and T2 times.
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Roujol, S., Basha, T.A., Tschabrunn, C.M. et al. New insights in swine model of ventricular tachycardia using quantitative myocardial tissue characterization. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 17 (Suppl 1), Q132 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-17-S1-Q132
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