• J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. · Apr 2010

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    Risk and fate of cerebral embolism after transfemoral aortic valve implantation: a prospective pilot study with diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging.

    • Alexander Ghanem, Andreas Müller, Claas P Nähle, Justine Kocurek, Nikos Werner, Christoph Hammerstingl, Hans H Schild, Jörg O Schwab, Fritz Mellert, Rolf Fimmers, Georg Nickenig, and Daniel Thomas.
    • Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. ghanem@uni-bonn.de
    • J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2010 Apr 6;55(14):1427-32.

    ObjectivesThe aim of this study was prospective investigation of silent and clinically apparent cerebral embolic events and neurological impairment after transfemoral aortic valve implantation (TAVI).BackgroundTAVI is a novel therapeutic approach for multimorbid patients with severe aortic stenosis. We investigated peri-interventional cerebral embolism with diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) and its relationship to clinical and serologic parameters of brain injury.MethodsCerebral DW-MRI was performed before, directly, and 3 months after TAVI with the current third-generation self-expanding CoreValve (Medtronic, Minneapolis, Minnesota) prosthesis. At the timepoints of the serial MRI studies, focal neurological impairment was assessed according to the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), and serum concentration of neuron-specific enolase (NSE), a marker of the volume of brain tissue involved in an ischemic event, were determined.ResultsThirty patients were enrolled; 22 completed the imaging protocol. Three patients (10%) had new neurological findings after TAVI, of whom only 1 (3.6%) had a permanent neurological impairment. Of the 22 TAVI patients with complete imaging data, 16 (72.7%) had 75 new cerebral lesions after TAVI presumed to be embolic. The NIHSS and NSE were not correlated with DW-MRI lesions.ConclusionsThe incidence of clinically silent peri-interventional cerebral embolic lesions after TAVI is high. However, in this cohort of 30 patients, the incidence of persistent neurological impairment was low. (Incidence and Severity of Silent and Apparent Cerebral Embolism After Conventional and Minimal-invasive Transfemoral Aortic Valve Replacement; NCT00883285).Copyright (c) 2010 American College of Cardiology Foundation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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