Equilibrium contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance for the measurement of diffuse myocardial fibrosis: preliminary validation in humans.

BACKGROUND: Diffuse myocardial fibrosis is a final end point in most cardiac diseases. It is missed by the cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) late gadolinium enhancement technique. Currently, quantifying diffuse myocardial fibrosis requires invasive biopsy, with inherent risk and sampling error...

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Publicado en:Circulation Vol. 122; no. 2; pp. 138 - 145
Autores principales: Flett AS, Hayward MP, Ashworth MT, Hansen MS, Taylor AM, Elliott PM, McGregor C, Moon JC
Formato: clinical trial research Journal Article
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 7/13/2010
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          Hayward MP
          Ashworth MT
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          Taylor AM
          Elliott PM
          McGregor C
          Moon JC
        affil: The Heart Hospital, 16-18 Westmoreland St, London W1G 8PH, United Kingdom. james.moon@uclh.nhs.uk.
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          Aortic Valve Stenosis Pathology
          Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic Pathology
          Contrast Media Administration and Dosage
          Myocardial Diseases Pathology
          Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods
          Aortic Valve Stenosis Surgery
          Biopsy
          Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic Surgery
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      ab: BACKGROUND: Diffuse myocardial fibrosis is a final end point in most cardiac diseases. It is missed by the cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) late gadolinium enhancement technique. Currently, quantifying diffuse myocardial fibrosis requires invasive biopsy, with inherent risk and sampling error. We have developed a robust and noninvasive technique, equilibrium contrast CMR (EQ-CMR) to quantify diffuse fibrosis and have validated it against the current gold standard of surgical myocardial biopsy. METHODS AND RESULTS: The 3 principles of EQ-CMR are a bolus of extracellular gadolinium contrast followed by continuous infusion to achieve equilibrium; a blood sample to measure blood volume of distribution (1-hematocrit); and CMR to measure pre- and postequilibrium T1 (with heart rate correction). The myocardial volume of distribution is calculated, reflecting diffuse myocardial fibrosis. Clinical validation occurred in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis or myectomy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (n=18 and n=8, respectively). Surgical biopsies were analyzed for picrosirius red fibrosis quantification on histology. The mean histological fibrosis was 20.5+/-11% in aortic stenosis and 17.1+/-7.4% in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. EQ-CMR correlated strongly with biopsy histological fibrosis: aortic stenosis, r(2)=0.86, Kendall Tau coefficient (T)=0.71, P<0.001; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, r(2)=0.62, T=0.52, P=0.08; combined r(2)=0.80, T=0.67, P<0.001. CONCLUSIONS: We have developed and validated a new technique, EQ-CMR, to measure diffuse myocardial fibrosis as an add-on to a standard CMR scan, which allows for the noninvasive quantification of the diffuse fibrosis burden in myocardial diseases.
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