Abstract
Objective
Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is treated by surgical myectomy or transcoronary ablation of septal hypertrophy (TASH). The aim of this study was to visualize the feasibility, success and short-term results of TASH on the basis of cardiac MRI (CMR) in comparison with cardiac catheterization and echocardiography.
Methods
In this in vivo study, nine patients with HOCM were treated with TASH. Patients were evaluated by transthoracic echocardiography, invasive cardiac angiography and CMR. Follow-up examinations were carried out after 1, 3 and 12 months. MR imaging was performed on a 1.5-T scanner. All images were processed using the semiautomatic Argus software and were evaluated by an attending thoracic radiologist and cardiologist.
Results
The echocardiographic pressure gradient (at rest) was 69.3 ± 15.3 mmHg before and 22.1 ± 5.7 mmHg after TASH (P < 0.01, n = 9). The flux acceleration over the aortic valve examined (V max) was 5.1 ± 0.6 m/s before and 3.4 ± 0.3 m/s after the TASH procedure (P < 0.05). Also, there was a decrease of septum thickness from 22.0 ± 1.2 to 20.2 ± 1.0 mm (P < 0.05) after 6 ± 3 weeks. The invasively assessed pressure gradient at rest was reduced from 63.7 ± 15.2 to 21.2 ± 11.1 mmHg (P < 0.01) and the post-extrasystolic gradient was reduced from 138.9 ± 12.7 to 45.6 ± 16.5 mmHg (P < 0.01). All differences as well as the quantity of injected ethanol were plotted against the size or amount of scar tissue as assessed in the MRI. There was a statistically significant correlation between the post-extrasystolic gradient decrease and the amount of scar tissue (P = 0.03, r 2 = 0.5). In addition, the correlation between the quantity of ethanol and scar tissue area was highly significant (P < 0.01, r 2 = 0.6), whereas the values for the gradient deviation (P = 0.10, r 2 = 0.34), ΔV max (P = 0.12, r 2 = 0.31), as well as the gradient at rest (P = 0.27, r 2 = 0.17) were not significant.
Conclusion
TASH was consistently effective in reducing the gradient in all patients with HOCM. In contrast to the variables investigated by echocardiography, the invasively measured post-extrasystolic gradient correlated much better with the amount of scar tissue as assessed by CMR. We conclude that the optimal modality to visualize the TASH effect seems to be a combination of CMR and the invasive identification of the post-extrasystolic gradient.
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Introduction
Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is a relatively common genetic cardiovascular disease with a prevalence of ~1:500 [1]. Patients with HOCM often present with symptoms of heart failure and insufficient response to medical treatment [2–5]. The most frequent therapy applied to these patients is surgical myectomy (removing a small amount of myocardium from the basal interventricular septum) [6–9]. This substantially reduces the subaortic outflow gradient in more than 90% of patients and results in persistent symptomatic improvement in about 70–90% [2, 5, 7–10]. In the last few years, minimally invasive transcoronary ablation of septal hypertrophy (TASH) by selective transcatheter septal branch injection of ethanol has shown to reduce substantially outflow tract obstruction in 80–90% and reduction of symptoms in 84–90% of the treated patients [11–19]. Consequently, TASH may be an effective alternative to surgery [20–27]. To avoid collateral damage like right bundle branch block (RBBB) or high-grade atrioventricular block it is important to estimate the anatomical conditions before starting the intervention. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to visualize the feasibility, hemodynamical success, and short term results of TASH on the basis of intracardiac catheterization, cardiac MRI (CMR), and echocardiography before and after the TASH procedure.
Materials and methods
To visualize the feasibility, hemodynamic success, and short term results of TASH intracardiac catheterization, CMR and echocardiography were conducted at baseline and in follow-up studies after 1, 3, and 12 months following the TASH procedure. All patients were monitored in the intensive or coronary care unit for at least 48 h. ECG and cardiac enzyme controls were assessed every 4 h until the CK peak was reached. Before discharge, noninvasive follow-up included Doppler assessments of the residual LVOT gradient.
Patient inclusion
TASH was applied to nine patients (median age 62 ± 6 years, six females and three males) with HOCM. The diagnosis of HOCM was based on the common clinical and two-dimensional echocardiographic criteria [1]. Obstruction was defined by an LVOT gradient under resting conditions and after provocation of at least 30 mmHg [1]. Detailed patients’ characteristics are presented in the Table 1. A written informed consent was obtained from each patient.
Echocardiographic examination
Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography was performed on Philips Sonos 5500 (Philips Medical Systems) and recorded on an S-VHS video to allow serial review and side-by-side comparison of the studies. Standard probes were used for transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography. Basal ventricular septal thickness was divided from an integrated analysis of M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiograms. The M-mode echocardiograms were derived from direct anatomical visualization of the two-dimensional images. All measurements were made according to the recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography [28]. The two-dimensional echocardiographic images were obtained in the parasternal long- and short-axis views and apical two- and four-chamber views using standard transducer positions. For transesophageal acquisition, the probe was placed in the mid-esophageal position, where an adequate four-chamber view could be obtained. Short-axis views were derived from a basal gastric position. Care was taken to achieve a similar probe position for the follow-up examinations. Systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve was defined as mild, moderate or severe according to Gilbert et al. [29]. Echocardiographic examinations were conduced at baseline, 6 ± 3 weeks, 3 months, and 1 year after TASH.
TASH procedure
In each case, the gradient at rest and the post-extrasystolic gradient were measured before and after the procedure. Briefly, a suitable proximal branch of the left anterior descending coronary artery was identified by a gradient-guided technique under programmed electrical stimulation. By using this technique, significantly smaller amounts of ethanol could be used by titrating the ethanol dose according to the angiographic washout velocity and real-time measured reduction of the intraventricular pressure gradient. Programmed electrical stimulation was used to provoke premature ventricular beats under reproducible conditions to assess post-extrasystolic potentiation of the gradient. Using this technique the fixed coupling interval is followed by an identical duration of the left ventricular filling period and a constant magnitude of the subsequently provoked gradient which correlates significantly with the gradient after physical exercise [23, 30]. Ethanol was injected only in case of a clear reduction of the gradient during testing the effect of a transient balloon occlusion of the septal vessel.
CMR investigation
CMR was carried out 10 ± 4 weeks after TASH. MR imaging was performed on a 1.5-T scanner (Magnetom; Siemens, Germany) with 40-mT/m maximum gradient strength and a phased array body coil. Investigation time was about 30–40 min. Patients were studied in a supine position with breath-holding-technique. Short-axis cine MRI of the entire left ventricle from the base to the apex was performed for the analysis of cardiac mass and function. Heart rate, vectorcardiogram and blood pressure were monitored.
The left ventricular function was assessed by a segmented two-dimensional electrocardiographically triggered fast low-angle shot-pulse sequence in the cine mode (TR 23.8 ms, TE 1.49 ms, flip angle 59°, basic resolution 256 × 256, voxel size 2.0 mm × 1.6 mm × 5 mm, slice thickness 5 mm, chronological resolution 50 ms, field of view phase 81.3%, phase resolution 79%, distance factor 20% and field of view reading up to 500 mm). The number of cardiac phases imaged depended on the heart rate. Typically, 16 phases per cardiac cycle were obtained. Three short-axis planes were obtained; slice positions were taken from the cine MR imaging data set. The basal slice was the first to show circumferential myocardium at both diastole and systole. The apical slice was the last to show the intracavity blood pool in all phases over the cardiac cycle. The mid-ventricular slice was positioned halfway between the basal slice and the apical slice.
The left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was estimated from the short-axis planes. Therefore, a segmented two-dimensional electrocardiographically triggered fast low-angle shot-pulse sequence was used during breath-holding (TR 23.8 ms, TE 1.49 ms, flip angle 59°, basic resolution 256 × 256, voxel size 2.0 mm × 1.6 mm × 5 mm, slice thickness 5 mm, chronological resolution 50 ms, field of view phase 81.3%, phase resolution 79%, distance factor 20% and field of view reading up to 500 mm). The number of cardiac phases imaged depended on the heart rate.
Image analysis
Tagged images were processed using the semiautomatic ARGUS software (version 2004 A; Siemens, Germany) and were evaluated by an attending thoracic radiologist and cardiologist. The area of interest was the ventricular septum and the subaortic region. The endo- and epicardial contours were defined in the end-diastolic frame and the software then detected the tag grid using an affine plus anisotropic radial scaling transform algorithm. The grid was adapted to each of the acquired images from the end-diastolic to the end-systolic frame, mass, left and right ventricular ejection fraction. If necessary, manual correction was performed by moving, adding, or deleting tag intersections. Evaluation time for tracking the tag intersections of one slice was about 30 min.
Left ventricular function and mass was also analyzed. After the determination of the end-diastolic and end-systolic frame on the first basal slice to show circumferential myocardium at both diastole and systole, the endocardial and epicardial contours were traced manually by two investigators. The papillary muscles were included in the measured ventricular volume. To account for body height and mass, indexes were calculated related to 1 m2 of body surface area for volumes and masses. Parameters of global function of the left ventricle were end-diastolic and end-systolic volume index and ejection fraction. The ventricular mass index was obtained by the multiplication of the mean wall volume of the end-diastolic and the end-systolic frames and the specific weight of cardiac muscle (1.05 g/mL). All volumes were calculated automatically by summing the areas in the entire series of short-axis cine images.
Data analysis and statistics
All data are expressed as mean ± SEM. Student’s paired t test was used to test for significance. P < 0.05 was considered significant. A linear regression analysis was used for comparing gradient data and ethanol injection with myocardial scar tissue. GraphPad Prism 5 was used to perform the regression analysis and Microsoft Excel was used in the case of paired t test of normal distributed data.
Results
TASH was highly effective in improving hemodynamic and anatomic conditions. Figure 1 shows the differences in LVOT gradient, flux acceleration (V max), septum thickness, pressure gradient at rest, post-extrasystolic gradient before and after TASH, as well as the corresponding scar tissue.
The echocardiographic pressure gradient could be significantly reduced by the TASH intervention. The LVOT gradient was reduced from 69.3 ± 15.3 to 22.1 ± 5.7 mmHg (Fig. 1a, n = 9 patients each, P < 0.01). Moreover, V max was decreased from 5.1 ± 0.6 to 3.4 ± 0.3 m/s (Fig. 1b, P < 0.05). There was a decrease of septum thickness from 22.0 ± 1.2 to 20.2 ± 1.0 mm (Fig. 1, P < 0.05).
After the successful TASH procedure the scar tissue was appraised by CMR. The mean scar tissue area was 5.0 ± 0.3 cm² (Fig. 1d). The intracardiac catheter delivers the corresponding gradients in situ. The invasively assessed LVOT pressure gradient at rest was decreased from 63.7 ± 15.2 to 21.2 ± 11.1 mmHg (Fig. 1e, P < 0.01), and the post-extrasystolic gradient was reduced from 138.9 ± 12.7 to 45.6 ± 16.5 mmHg (Fig. 1f, P < 0.01).
To further visualize the operability and success of TASH the echocardiographic and invasive measurements were correlated with the accordant CMR scar tissue area into the ventricular septum in the subaortic region. Figure 2 demonstrates the correlation between the scar size and the echocardiographically and invasively assessed parameters. Figure 2d demonstrates a significant correlation between the scar size and the invasively measured post-extrasystolic gradient reduction (P < 0.05, r 2 = 0.5), whereas the values for the echocardiographic gradient deviation (Fig. 2a, P = 0.10, r 2 = 0.34), ΔV max (Fig. 2b, P = 0.12, r 2 = 0.31), as well as the invasive gradient at rest (Fig. 2c, P = 0.27, r 2 = 0.17) were not significant. To evaluate the different effects of varying ethanol dosing within the procedure, the CMR scar tissue area was correlated with the quantity of injected ethanol. Our data showed a significant correlation between the amount of ethanol and the scar tissue (Fig. 3, P < 0.01, r 2 = 0.6).
Discussion
In 1995, Sigwart et al. [12] were the first to describe the effect of occluding a septal perforator artery with ethanol on the pressure gradient in HOCM. This procedure provoked a localized septal infarction and was referred to as nonsurgical septal reduction therapy (NSRT). Subsequently, two German centers reported extensive experience with many hundreds of patients [13, 31]. Seggewiss et al. [31] have referred to the procedure as percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation (PTSMA), whereas Gietzen et al. [13, 27] have called the procedure transcoronary ablation of septal hypertrophy (TASH). There is enough evidence to show that the amount of ethanol used and the number of septal perforator arteries ablated determine the height of the creatine kinase (CK) rise, the degree of acute gradient reduction (Fig. 4) and the incidence of complete heart block and mortality [13, 17, 27, 31]. The introduction of myocardial contrast echocardiography by Faber et al. [16] allows for the correct identification of the appropriate septal perforator to be occluded and the avoidance of occluding septal perforators that supply distant areas of the myocardium such as the papillary muscles or the free wall of the left or right ventricle. However, it has been shown that the amount of septum reduction increases further with time after TASH [32]. The observation that there is further gradient reduction in the year following the procedure has led to a less aggressive approach in terms of the amount of ethanol used and the number of vessels ablated during the procedure with a resulting decrease in the incidence of heart block [13, 17, 20, 27, 31, 32].
The TASH procedure is a promising nonsurgical technique for the reduction of symptoms and the LVOT gradient in HOCM. Several studies have shown clinical success rates with TASH application, varying from 90 to 100% [13, 15, 18, 20, 31, 32]. This is in line with our findings. Our results demonstrate a clinical success rate defined as a reduction of the echocardiographic LVOT gradient at rest, septum thickness, invasively assessed gradient at rest and gradient after stimulation of 100% (Fig. 1). The invasive measurements showed a significant decrease of the basal LVOT gradient at rest and also of the post-extrasystolic gradient after the TASH procedure (Figs. 1, 4). The echocardiographic examination of the LVOT gradient under basal conditions, the maximal flux acceleration over the aortic valve and septum size before and after TASH treatment confirms these results (Fig. 1). We could show a TASH-associated improvement in all examinations. Consequently, TASH was highly effective in improving hemodynamic and anatomic conditions. Furthermore, the TASH procedure has some advantages in comparison to myectomy surgery. These advantages include: the avoidance of cardiopulmonary bypass with attendant risks, especially in elderly patients, as well as a shorter hospitalization period. Although two large German studies reported longer hospital residencies for supervision for delayed heart block [13, 31], a shorter recovery time and less expenses were recorded.
On the other hand, the advantages of myectomy surgery include: more immediate and complete relief of resting and provoked obstruction and concomitant mitral regurgitation, as well as smaller incidences of complete heart block, requiring a pacemaker. There are excellent long-term results with no risk of coronary dissection or unwanted myocardial infarction. There is no evidence in long-term studies that myectomy is arrhythmogenic, has ability to deal with concomitant problems such as mid-ventricular obstruction, constricting muscle bridges over the left anterior descending coronary artery, and aortocoronary bypass surgery. It does not cause right ventricular outflow obstruction, mitral valve repair or replacement for additional valvular problems, and concerning a small but significant amount of patients, it is not able to carry out NSRT for technical reasons, and NSRT may be less effective in younger patients with thicker septum [33] and in other specific circumstances.
There is still a considerable debate on the optimal procedure in the management of subaortic obstructive HCM. On the one hand the ambition of TASH is the reduction of symptoms and the LVOT gradient in HOCM. On the other hand it is essential to reduce the collateral complications of the nonsurgical procedure like RBBB (in almost 50% of the patients) and high-grade atrioventricular block requiring permanent pacing in 10% [34]. Therefore, it is important to create a small-sized infarction-area. The role of CMR was to estimate the anatomical conditions before starting the intervention and to clarify the broadening of scar tissue. In our opinion, the current role and future potential of CMR in TASH has not been investigated sufficiently. It is accepted that CMR is the gold standard imaging tool to access cardiac masses or to measure cardiac scar tissue [35–39]. Furthermore, CMR has an outstanding role in ischemia diagnostic and coronary artery disease (CAD) [40–49]. To our knowledge this is the first study that shows a direct correlation of the CMR scar tissue and the effectiveness of TASH.
One aim of this study was to evaluate the ideal diagnostic imaging modality to illustrate the effectiveness of the TASH procedure. Another aim was to assess if the broadening of the infarction area correlates with the reduction of the LVOT gradient. After the successful TASH procedure the scar tissue was appraised by CMR and the infarction area was correlated with the decrease of the LVOT gradient the septum downsizing and the ethanol injection. Figure 2 shows a correlation between each examination and the corresponding scar tissue. There was no significant correlation between the echocardiographic investigations and the corresponding scar tissue into the CMR investigation. Consequently, echocardiography may not be able to visualize the effectiveness of TASH significantly. Concerning the invasive measurements, Fig. 2c also delivers a nonsignificant result for the correlation of the angiographic LVOT gradient at rest and the imaged infarction area. In Fig. 2d the post-extrasystolic gradient is plotted against the scar tissue. There was a statistical significant correlation between the different investigation methods (P = 0.03, r 2 = 0.5). Furthermore, our results suggest some answers in the remaining areas of uncertainty concerning the different effects of varying ethanol dosing within TASH. Veselka et al. [50], compared the effect of a “high dose” (2.8 ± 0.6 ml) versus a “low dose” (1.5 ± 0.4 ml) of ethanol, resulting in CK peaks of about six- versus ninefold above their upper reference value of 0.4 Kat/l. As the main conclusion, no difference was found with respect to hemodynamic efficiency during short-term follow-up in 42 patients. This is in concert with several other studies which suggest, that a correctly placed ablation lesion, releasing a CK peak of five- to nine-fold, should be high enough to substantially reduce or eliminate the LVOT obstruction during a 12-month local remodeling process [27, 51, 52]. In our study, the mean amount of ethanol injected was 1.8 ± 0.3 ml (Table 1). The results of our study show a significant correlation between the amount of injected ethanol and scar tissue investigated by CMR (Fig. 3, P = 0.01, r 2 = 0.6). Consequently, these data underline the outstanding importance of the correctly placed TASH procedure. Our analysis clarifies the ability of CMR to deliver a direct in vivo evaluation of the ethanol associated infarction area (Figs. 5, 6). Thus, it offers an independent alternative to laboratory testing and other imaging techniques.
This indicates that a combined technique of invasive measurements and noninvasive CMR is ideally suited to assess the efficiency of TASH in ventricular hypertrophy and remodeling, which may allow a reduction in sample size to show clinically relevant effects. A comprehensive functional assessment is possible by CMR because of its capability to measure the flow velocity and the flow volume, which are the basic requirements to quantify lesion severity in a heart disease, which was formerly the main focus of echocardiography (Fig. 7) [35, 36, 40]. Another important advantage of CMR over other imaging methods that are used to assess myocardial viability is that it shows the transmural extent of viable myocardium (Fig. 5) [41]. This leads to the possibility of visualizing the ethanol determined infarction area as scar tissue. Furthermore, major technical advances have considerably improved acquisition speed and image quality thus making CMR a useful tool for the evaluation of patients with ischemic heart disease [42–49].
Our study has several limitations. It has to be considered that there is only a relative small study population which leads to high range of individual variability. Probably, some results would have reached statistical significant correlation with a greater amount of patients. Patients were not assigned randomly. Larger studies with more patients have to be conducted. The M-mode measurements of left atrial and left ventricular dimensions may not sample exactly maximum and minimum wall thickness, may be subject to angle errors, and were not performed blinded with respect to treatment status.
We come to the conclusion that CMR offers a potentially more accurate noninvasive technique for in vivo comparison of scar tissue than echocardiography. Furthermore, CMR provides images with high spatial resolution, free of geometric constraints, as well as precise volumetric quantification of abnormalities and direct anatomical correlation (Figs. 5, 6). We conclude that, the optimal modality to visualize the TASH effect seems to be a combination between CMR-imaging and the invasive identification of the post-extrasystolic gradient.
Abbreviations
- HOCM:
-
Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
- TASH:
-
Transcoronary ablation of septal hypertrophy
- CMR:
-
Cardiac MRI
- LVOT:
-
Left ventricular outflow tract
- V max :
-
Flux acceleration over the aortic valve
- RBBB:
-
Right bundle branch block
- LVEF:
-
Left ventricular ejection fraction
- CK:
-
Creatine kinase
- CAD:
-
Coronary artery disease
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Sohns, C., Sossalla, S., Schmitto, J.D. et al. Visualization of transcoronary ablation of septal hypertrophy in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: a comparison between cardiac MRI, invasive measurements and echocardiography. Clin Res Cardiol 99, 359–368 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-010-0128-8
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