• J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. · Feb 2015

    Systemic vascular load in calcific degenerative aortic valve stenosis: insight from percutaneous valve replacement.

    • Raquel Yotti, Javier Bermejo, Enrique Gutiérrez-Ibañes, Candelas Pérez del Villar, Teresa Mombiela, Jaime Elízaga, Yolanda Benito, Ana González-Mansilla, Alicia Barrio, Daniel Rodríguez-Pérez, Pablo Martínez-Legazpi, and Francisco Fernández-Avilés.
    • Department of Cardiology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, and Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: raquel.yotti@salud.madrid.org.
    • J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2015 Feb 10;65(5):423-33.

    BackgroundSystemic arterial load impacts the symptomatic status and outcome of patients with calcific degenerative aortic stenosis (AS). However, assessing vascular properties is challenging because the arterial tree's behavior could be influenced by the valvular obstruction.ObjectivesThis study sought to characterize the interaction between valvular and vascular functions in patients with AS by using transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) as a clinical model of isolated intervention.MethodsAortic pressure and flow were measured simultaneously using high-fidelity sensors in 23 patients (mean 79 ± 7 years of age) before and after TAVR. Blood pressure and clinical response were registered at 6-month follow-up.ResultsSystolic and pulse arterial pressures, as well as indices of vascular function (vascular resistance, aortic input impedance, compliance, and arterial elastance), were significantly modified by TAVR, exhibiting stiffer vascular behavior post-intervention (all, p < 0.05). Peak left ventricular pressure decreased after TAVR (186 ± 36 mm Hg vs. 162 ± 23 mm Hg, respectively; p = 0.003) but remained at >140 mm Hg in 70% of patients. Wave intensity analysis showed abnormally low forward and backward compression waves at baseline, increasing significantly after TAVR. Stroke volume decreased (-21 ± 19%; p < 0.001) and correlated with continuous and pulsatile indices of arterial load. In the 48 h following TAVR, a hypertensive response was observed in 12 patients (52%), and after 6-month follow-up, 5 patients required further intensification of discharge antihypertensive therapy.ConclusionsVascular function in calcific degenerative AS is conditioned by the upstream valvular obstruction that dampens forward and backward compression waves in the arterial tree. An increase in vascular load after TAVR limits the procedure's acute afterload relief.Copyright © 2015 American College of Cardiology Foundation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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