Affiliation:
1. Nuclear Medicine, Hannover Medical School, GERMANY
2. Radiology, Hannover Medical School, GERMANY
3. Pharmaceutical Radiochemistry, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, GERMANY
4. Nuclear Medicine, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, GERMANY
Abstract
Rationale:
Tissue inflammation and subsequent fibrosis contribute to ventricle remodelling after ischemic injury, and have emerged as viable therapeutic targets. Comparatively little is understood about the dynamics of inflammation and fibrosis in non-ischemic heart failure, which is challenging to interrogate longitudinally.
Objective:
To investigate the interplay between ventricle loading conditions, tissue inflammation, and progressive fibrosis using non-invasive multimodality molecular imaging to characterize these processes in pressure overload heart failure.
Methods and Results:
We evaluated cardiac inflammation using positron emission tomography radiotracer 68Ga-pentixafor which binds to chemokine CXC-motif receptor 4 (CXCR4). Over the first 7d after transverse aortic constriction (TAC), CXCR4 imaging identified diffuse elevated myocardial inflammation throughout the left ventricle (+34%, p<0.001), returning to sham levels over 6 weeks after surgery. This transient signal colocalized to local enrichment of CD68 macrophages, as confirmed by autoradiography and immunostaining. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a parallel prolongation of myocardial T1 relaxation time in TAC mice, persisting from 8d to 6 weeks after surgery (+22%, p=0.003). The persistent imaging signal correlated to increased tissue fibrosis on histology. Molecular imaging at 1 week after surgery correlated independently with the change in ventricle geometry over the subsequent 3 weeks (CXCR4, rpartial=0.670, p=0.024; T1, rpartial=0.689, p=0.019). Alleviation of ventricle pressure by mechanical unloading restored not only cardiac function and geometry, but also attenuated global inflammation and normalized T1 relaxation time. This finding demonstrates the capacity to monitor therapeutic intervention by serial molecular imaging.
Conclusions:
Inflammation and fibrosis are implicated in the early response to pressure overload, and may be sensitively monitored by multimodality imaging. Such multimodality molecular imaging approaches may guide novel therapeutic approaches in non-ischemic heart failure.
Funder
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology
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