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How successful is successful? Aortic arch shape after successful aortic coarctation repair correlates with left ventricular function

Bruse, JL; Khushnood, A; McLeod, K; Biglino, G; Sermesant, M; Pennec, X; Taylor, AM; ... Modeling of Congenital Hearts Alliance Collaborative Group, .; + view all (2017) How successful is successful? Aortic arch shape after successful aortic coarctation repair correlates with left ventricular function. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery , 153 (2) pp. 418-427. 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.09.018. Green open access

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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Even after successful aortic coarctation repair, there remains a significant incidence of late systemic hypertension and other morbidities. Independently of residual obstruction, aortic arch morphology alone may affect cardiac function and outcome. We sought to uncover the relationship of arch 3-dimensional shape features with functional data obtained from cardiac magnetic resonance scans. METHODS: Three-dimensional aortic arch shape models of 53 patients (mean age, 22.3 ± 5.6 years) 12 to 38 years after aortic coarctation repair were reconstructed from cardiac magnetic resonance data. A novel validated statistical shape analysis method computed a 3-dimensional mean anatomic shape of all aortic arches and calculated deformation vectors of the mean shape toward each patient's arch anatomy. From these deformations, 3-dimensional shape features most related to left ventricular ejection fraction, indexed left ventricular end-diastolic volume, indexed left ventricular mass, and resting systolic blood pressure were extracted from the deformation vectors via partial least-squares regression. RESULTS: Distinct arch shape features correlated significantly with left ventricular ejection fraction (r = 0.42, P = .024), indexed left ventricular end-diastolic volume (r = 0.65, P < .001), and indexed left ventricular mass (r = 0.44, P = .014). Lower left ventricular ejection fraction, larger indexed left ventricular end-diastolic volume, and increased indexed left ventricular mass were identified with an aortic arch shape that has an elongated ascending aorta with a high arch height-to-width ratio, a relatively short proximal transverse arch, and a relatively dilated descending aorta. High blood pressure seemed to be linked to gothic arch shape features, but this did not achieve statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: Independently of hemodynamically important arch obstruction or residual aortic coarctation, specific aortic arch shape features late after successful aortic coarctation repair seem to be associated with worse left ventricular function. Analyzing 3-dimensional shape information via statistical shape modeling can be an adjunct to long-term risk assessment in patients after aortic coarctation repair.

Type: Article
Title: How successful is successful? Aortic arch shape after successful aortic coarctation repair correlates with left ventricular function
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.09.018
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.09.018
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This manuscript version is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher.
Keywords: Aortic arch, coarcation of the aorta, shape analysis
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Childrens Cardiovascular Disease
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1527236
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