Avaliação da fibrose miocárdica pela ressonância magnética e tomografia computadorizada com múltiplos detectores na cardiomiopatia hipertrófica / Myocardial fibrosis evaluation by magnetic resonance and multidetector computed tomography in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

AUTOR(ES)

Afonso Akio Shiozaki

FONTE

IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

09/08/2011

RESUMO

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic cardiac disorder leading cause of sudden death in young people with extremely variable presentation, from asymptomatic to sudden death as first symptom, leads to challenging risk stratification. Recently, both cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) were able to assess myocardial fibrosis (MF) often found in cases of HCM. Our objectives were to evaluate the distribution and correlation of myocardial hypertrophy (MH) and myocardial fibrosis by CMR in patients with HCM; to compare and validate the assessment of myocardial fibrosis by MDCT and CMR and to evaluate the correlation between myocardial fibrosis by MDCT and ventricular arrhythmias appropriately treated by defibrillators, due to contraindications to CMR in this group. 145 HCM patients were selected with 13 having exclusion criteria. Then 132 outpatients were included and signed informed consent for this study. First, 91 patients were submitted to CMR to evaluate the morphofunctional characteristics of the heart including myocardial fibrosis; Second, 15 patients were submitted to both MDCT and CMR in order to evaluate myocardial fibrosis by both methods, and finally 26 HCM patients with implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) were submitted to MDCT, for assessment MF. Among 91 patients submitted to CMR the mean age was 37.9 ± 17 years old, and 58% were men. The LV maximum end diastolic wall thickness was 24.2 ± 6.3mm and LVEF mean was 73.3% ± 13.3. MF was evident in 76.9% of patients with a mean fibrosis mass index of 8.1±11.0g/m2. Of all the 1547 myocardial segments from 91 HCM patient, 35.2% of segments with MF occurred in segments without MH, 58.6% of MH segments had no signs of MF. Linear regression showed no significant correlation between number of segments with MH and MF (r = 0.13, p = 0.21). A per patient Kappa analysis showed no significant agreement (Kappa0.40, p ns) between MH and MF in 65.8% of the population and the remaining 34.2% of this population showed a significant agreement between MH and MF (kappa >0.40, p <0.001). The analysis of MF% in the group of 15 HCM patients submitted by both MDCT and MR showed a good correlation by linear regression between the two methods with r = 0.77 and p = 0.0001 with mean difference of 0.99g. The MF analysis by TCMD in 26 HCM patients with ICD, clinically indicated, for at least one year demonstrated that MF was present in 96.1% of patients with a mean fibrosis mass of 20.5±15.8g. During the mean follow-up of 38.5±25.5 months, 50% of these patients present appropriated shocks due to ventricular fibrillation in most of cases (12/13 registered events). Patients with appropriate ICD shocks had significantly greater MF mass than those without (29.10±19.13g vs 13.57±8.31g, p=0.01). The best MF mass cut off was 18g, with an accuracy of 0.75 for predicting ICD firing. Patients with MF mass 18g had a significantly higher event rate in the follow up (p=0.02). MF mass was independently associated with ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation on ICD-stored electrograms by multivariate analysis. We conclude that the presentation of myocardial hypertrophy and fibrosis areas is heterogeneous and the correlation between MH and MF is variable and non significant in the most of the patients in CMR images. The validation data of MF techniques showed that in cases where CMR can not be used, MDCT may be a good alternative to assessment of fibrosis. The MF analysis in HCM patients with ICD showed a significant and independent association between MF extent and VF / VT appropriated therapy by ICDs

ASSUNTO(S)

fibrose hypertrophic cardiomyopathy multidetector computed tomography myocardial fibrosis prognosis cardiomiopatia hipertrófica cardiovascular magnetic resonance prognóstico ressonância magnética cardiovascular tomografia computadorizada

Documentos Relacionados

• Ressonância Magnética e Tomografia Computadorizada Cardíaca na Cardiomiopatia Hipertrófica: Atualidades
• Avaliação da perfusão miocárdica de estresse com dipiridamol pela tomografia computadorizada com 64 colunas de detectores
• Avaliação da aterosclerose coronária em pacientes com doença de Chagas por tomografia computadorizada de múltiplos detectores
• Avaliação pela ressonância magnética do realce tardio e perfusão miocárdica em pacientes com cardiomiopatia hipertrófica (comparação entre os grupos obstrutivo e não obstrutivo)
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Myocardial Fibrosis in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy