Mitral Annular Dynamics in Myxomatous Valve Disease
- 30 March 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Circulation
- Vol. 121 (12), 1423-1431
- https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.109.901181
Abstract
Background— Mitral annulus is a complex structure of poorly understood physiology. Full-volume real-time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography offers a unique opportunity to completely image and quantify mitral annulus size and motion. Methods and Results— Real-time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography of the mitral valve was acquired in 32 patients with myxomatous valve disease (MVD) and moderate to severe regurgitation, 15 normal control subjects, and 10 patients with ischemic mitral regurgitation of identical body surface area. Mitral annular dimensions (circumference, area, anteroposterior and intercommissural diameters, height, and ratio of height to intercommissural diameter ratio, which appraises annular saddle-shape depth) were measured throughout the cardiac cycle with dedicated quantification software. Compared with direct surgical measurement, 3-dimensional anterior annular dimension provided reliable measurements (mean difference, 0.1±0.1 mm; P =0.73; 95% confidence interval, ±4.4 mm). Annular dimensions were larger in MVD patients compared with control subjects in diastole (all P P P =0.04) contraction, increased height ( P P P =0.30). In contrast, MVD showed early-systolic intercommissural dilatation ( P =0.02) and no area contraction ( P =0.99), height increase ( P =0.11), or saddle-shape deepening ( P =0.35). Late-systolic MVD annular saddle shape deepened but annular area excessively enlarged ( P P P =0.30). Conclusions— Real-time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography provides insights into normal, dynamic mitral annulus function with early-systolic area contraction and saddle-shape deepening contributing to mitral competency. MVD annulus is also dynamic but considerably different with loss of early-systolic area contraction and saddle-shape deepening despite similar magnitude of ventricular contraction, suggestive of ventricular-annular decoupling. Subsequent area enlargement may contribute to mitral incompetence. After mitral repair, MVD annulus remains dynamic without systolic saddle-shape accentuation. Thus, real-time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography provides new insights that allow the refining of mitral pathophysiology concepts and repair strategies.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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