• Am. J. Cardiol. · Jul 2014

    Left ventricular diastolic function and characteristics in fetal aortic stenosis.

    • Kevin G Friedman, David Schidlow, Lindsay Freud, Maria Escobar-Diaz, and Wayne Tworetzky.
    • Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: Kevin.Friedman@cardio.chboston.org.
    • Am. J. Cardiol. 2014 Jul 1; 114 (1): 122-7.

    AbstractFetal aortic balloon valvuloplasty (FAV) has shown promise in averting progression of midgestation aortic stenosis (AS) to hypoplastic left heart syndrome in a subset of patients. Patients who achieve biventricular circulation after FAV frequently have left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction (DD). This study evaluates DD in fetuses with AS by comparing echocardiographic indices of LV diastolic function in fetuses underwent FAV (n = 20) with controls (n = 40) and evaluates for LV factors associated with DD in patients with FAV. We also compared pre-FAV and post-FAV DD variables (n = 16). Median gestational age (24 weeks, range 18 to 29 weeks) and fetal heart rate were similar between FAV and controls. Compared with controls, patients with FAV had universally abnormal LV diastolic parameters including fused mitral inflow E and A waves (p = 0.008), higher E velocity (p <0.001), shorter mitral inflow time (p = 0.001), lower LV lateral annulus E' (p <0.001), septal E' (p = 0.003), and higher E/E' (p <0.001) than controls. Patients with FAV had abnormal right ventricular mechanics with higher tricuspid inflow E velocity (p <0.001) and shorter tricuspid inflow time (p = 0.03). Worse LV diastolic function (lower LV E') was associated with higher endocardial fibroelastosis grade (r = 0.74, p <0.001), large LV volume (r = 0.55, p = 0.013), and sphericity (r = 0.58, p = 0.009) and with lower LV pressure by mitral regurgitation jet (r = -0.68, p <0.001). Post-FAV, fewer patients had fused mitral inflow E and A than pre-FAV (p = 0.05) and septal E' was higher (=0.04). In conclusion, fetuses with midgestation AS have evidence of marked DD. Worse DD is associated with larger, more spherical LV, with more extensive endocardial fibroelastosis and lower LV pressure. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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