How to incorporate tricuspid regurgitation in right ventricular-pulmonary arterial coupling

Adaptation of the right ventricle (RV) to a progressively increasing afterload is one of the hallmarks of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Pressure-volume loop analysis provides measures of load-independent RV contractility, i.e., end-systolic elastance, and pulmonary vascular properties, i.e., effective arterial elastance (Ea). However, PAH-induced RV overload potentially results in tricuspid regurgitation (TR). TR makes RV eject to both PA and right atrium; thereby, a ratio of RV end-systolic pressure (Pes) to RV stroke volume (SV) could not correctly define Ea. To overcome this limitation, we introduced a two-parallel compliance model, i.e., Ea = 1/(1/Epa + 1/ETR), while effective pulmonary arterial elastance (Epa = Pes/PASV) represents pulmonary vascular properties and effective tricuspid regurgitant elastance (ETR) represents TR. We conducted animal experiments to validate this framework. First, we performed SV analysis with a pressure-volume catheter in the RV and a flow probe at the aorta in rats with and without pressure-overloaded RV to determine the effect of inferior vena cava (IVC) occlusion on TR. A discordance between the two techniques was found in rats with pressure-overloaded RV, not in sham. This discordance diminished after IVC occlusion, suggesting that TR in pressure-overloaded RV was diminished by IVC occlusion. Next, we performed pressure-volume loop analysis in rats with pressure-overloaded RVs, calibrating RV volume by cardiac magnetic resonance. We found that IVC occlusion increased Ea, suggesting that a reduction of TR increased Ea. Using the proposed framework, Epa was indistinguishable to Ea post-IVC occlusion. We conclude that the proposed framework helps better understanding of the pathophysiology of PAH and associated right heart failure.NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study reveals the impact of tricuspid regurgitation on pressure-volume loop analysis in right ventricle pressure overload. By introducing a novel concept of parallel compliances in the pressure-volume loop analysis, a better description is provided for the right ventricular forward afterload in the presence of tricuspid regurgitation.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:135

Enthalten in:

Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) - 135(2023), 1 vom: 01. Juli, Seite 53-59

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yoshida, Keimei [VerfasserIn]
Axelsen, Julie Birkmose [VerfasserIn]
Saku, Keita [VerfasserIn]
Andersen, Asger [VerfasserIn]
de Man, Frances S [VerfasserIn]
Sunagawa, Kenji [VerfasserIn]
Vonk Noordegraaf, Anton [VerfasserIn]
Bogaard, Harm Jan [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Pressure-volume loop analysis
Pulmonary arterial hypertension
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tricuspid regurgitation

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Date Completed 06.11.2023

Date Revised 06.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

figshare: 10.6084/m9.figshare.22572943, 10.6084/m9.figshare.22572946

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1152/japplphysiol.00081.2023

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM357295595