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Dynamic change in mitral annular area and motion during percutaneous mitral annuloplasty for ischemic mitral regurgitation: preliminary animal study with real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography.

Daimon M, Gillinov AM, Liddicoat JR, Saracino G, Fukuda S, Koyama Y, Hayase M, Cohn WE, Ellis SG, Thomas JD, Shiota T

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.

We used a novel 3-dimensional (3D) echocardiographic technique to evaluate the impact of a coronary sinus-based percutaneous transvenous mitral annuloplasty (PTMA) on dynamic changes in mitral annular geometry and motion during the cardiac cycle in 8 sheep with ischemic mitral regurgitation. Using real-time 3D echocardiographic data before and after PTMA, 10 points along the saddle-shaped annulus were identified. For every 3D volume/frame during a cardiac cycle, we assessed mitral annular area and excursion defined as the traveling distance of the annular center. The PTMA device reduced both minimum and maximal mitral annular area (9.5 +/- 0.9-7.0 +/- 0.6 and 12.8 +/- 1.3-9.8 +/- 1.5 cm(2), P < .001 for both, respectively) with reduction of mitral regurgitation jet area (5.1 +/- 2.3-1.2 +/- 0.8 cm(2), P < .001), whereas it did not significantly impair mitral annular excursion amplitude (8.3 +/- 1.1-7.0 +/- 1.9 mm, P = .13). This 3D echocardiographic method noninvasively enabled dynamic study of mitral annular geometry and motion with quantitative analysis of the impact of PTMA.

Published 2 April 2007 in J Am Soc Echocardiogr, 20(4): 381-8.
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