Affiliation:
1. The Division of Cardiology Department of Medicine University of California, San DiegoSulpizio Cardiovascular Center San Diego CA
2. The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Department of Medicine Kurume University School of Medicine Fukuoka Japan
Abstract
Background
Effective orifice area (EOA) ≥0.2 cm
2
or regurgitant volume (Rvol) ≥30 mL predicts prognostic significance in functional mitral regurgitation (FMR). Both volumetric and proximal isovelocity surface area (PISA) methods enable calculation of these metrics. To determine their clinical value, we compared EOA and Rvol derived by volumetric and PISA quantitation upon outcome of patients with FMR.
Methods and Results
We examined the outcome of patients with left ventricular ejection fraction <35% and moderate to severe FMR. All had a complete echocardiogram including EOA and Rvol by both standard PISA and volumetric quantitation using total stroke volume calculated by left ventricular end‐diastolic volume×left ventricular ejection fraction and forward flow by Doppler method: EOA=Rvol/mitral regurgitation velocity time integral. Primary outcome was all‐cause mortality or heart transplantation. We examined 177 patients: mean left ventricular ejection fraction 25.2% and 34.5% with ischemic cardiomyopathy. Echo measurements were greater by PISA than volumetric quantitation: EOA (0.18 versus 0.11 cm
2
), Rvol (24.7 versus 16.9 mL), and regurgitant fraction (61 versus 37 %) respectively (all
P
value <0.001). During 3.6±2.3 years’ follow‐up, patients with EOA ≥0.2 cm
2
or Rvol ≥30 mL had a worse outcome than those with EOA <0.2 cm
2
or Rvol <30 mL only by volumetric (log rank
P
=0.003 and 0.004) but not PISA quantitation (log rank
P
=0.984 and 0.544), respectively.
Conclusions
Volumetric and PISA methods yield different measurements of EOA and Rvol in FMR; volumetric values exhibit greater prognostic significance. The echo method of quantifying FMR may affect the management of this disorder.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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