• Jo Eidet, Gry Dahle, Jan Frederik Bugge, Bjørn Bendz, Kjell Arne Rein, Lars Aaberge, Jon Thomas Offstad, Erik Fosse, Svend Aakhus, and Per Steinar Halvorsen.
• The Intervention Centre, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
• Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2016 Jan 1; 22 (1): 5-12.

ObjectivesLeft ventricular function is expected to improve after transcatheter aortic valve implantation due to the acute reduction in afterload, but does not occur in all patients. We hypothesized that the immediate intraoperative response in systolic left ventricular longitudinal motion during the procedure could be a predictor of short-term outcome.MethodsSixty-four patients treated with transcatheter aortic valve implantation for severe aortic stenosis were included. Transoesophageal 4- and 2-chamber echocardiograms were obtained immediately prior to and ∼15 min after valve implantation. Patients were defined as responders if their average left ventricular longitudinal peak systolic velocity increased by ≥20% from the preimplantation value and was related to the 3-month outcome.ResultsThirty-five patients were classified as responders, with an increase in the intraoperative longitudinal peak systolic velocity from an average of 2.2 ± 0.8 to 3.1 ± 1.1 cm/s (P < 0.001); the velocity was unchanged in the remaining 29 patients, who averaged 2.4 ± 1.1 cm/s. There were significantly fewer adverse cardiac events in the responder group at the 3-month follow-up (20 vs 45%, P = 0.03) and the New York Heart Association class was significantly better in the responders compared with non-responders. Responders had a significant reduction in N-terminal probrain natriuretic peptide levels [243 (113-361) vs 163 (64-273), P = 0.004] at the 3-month follow-up, whereas non-responders did not [469 (130-858) vs 289 (157-921), P = 0.48].ConclusionsAn immediate improvement in the longitudinal peak systolic velocity during the transcatheter aortic valve implantation procedure predicted a better short-term outcome and may be useful in identifying patients who are at risk of a less favourable outcome after transcatheter aortic valve implantation.© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.

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