Cardiac PET Myocardial Blood Flow Quantification Assessment of Early Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy

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BACKGROUND: Positron emission tomography (PET) has demonstrated utility for diagnostic and prognostic assessment of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) but has not been evaluated in the first year after transplant.

OBJECTIVES: The authors sought to evaluate CAV at 1 year by PET myocardial blood flow (MBF) quantification.

METHODS: Adults at 2 institutions enrolled between January 2018 and March 2021 underwent prospective 3-month (baseline) and 12-month (follow-up) post-transplant PET, endomyocardial biopsy, and intravascular ultrasound examination. Epicardial CAV was assessed by intravascular ultrasound percent intimal volume (PIV) and microvascular CAV by endomyocardial biopsy.

RESULTS: A total of 136 PET studies from 74 patients were analyzed. At 12 months, median PIV increased 5.6% (95% CI: 3.6%-7.1%) with no change in microvascular CAV incidence (baseline: 31% vs follow-up: 38%; P = 0.406) and persistent microvascular disease in 13% of patients. Median capillary density increased 30 capillaries/mm2 (95% CI: -6 to 79 capillaries/mm2). PET myocardial flow reserve (2.5 ± 0.7 vs 2.9 ± 0.8; P = 0.001) and stress MBF (2.7 ± 0.6 vs 2.9 ± 0.6; P = 0.008) increased, and coronary vascular resistance (CVR) (49 ± 13 vs 47 ± 11; P = 0.214) was unchanged. At 12 months, PET and PIV had modest correlation (stress MBF: r = -0.35; CVR: r = 0.33), with lower stress MBF and higher CVR across increasing PIV tertiles (all P < 0.05). Receiver-operating characteristic curves for CAV defined by upper-tertile PIV showed areas under the curve of 0.74 for stress MBF and 0.73 for CVR.

CONCLUSIONS: The 1-year post-transplant PET MBF is associated with epicardial CAV, supporting potential use for early noninvasive CAV assessment. (Early Post Transplant Cardiac Allograft Vasculopahty [ECAV]; NCT03217786).

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

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JACC. Cardiovascular imaging - (2023) vom: 22. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chih, Sharon [VerfasserIn]
Tavoosi, Anahita [VerfasserIn]
Nair, Vidhya [VerfasserIn]
Chong, Aun Yeong [VerfasserIn]
Džavík, Vladimír [VerfasserIn]
Aleksova, Natasha [VerfasserIn]
So, Derek Y [VerfasserIn]
deKemp, Robert A [VerfasserIn]
Amara, Ines [VerfasserIn]
Wells, George A [VerfasserIn]
Bernick, Jordan [VerfasserIn]
Overgaard, Christopher B [VerfasserIn]
Celiker-Guler, Emel [VerfasserIn]
Mielniczuk, Lisa M [VerfasserIn]
Stadnick, Ellamae [VerfasserIn]
McGuinty, Caroline [VerfasserIn]
Ross, Heather J [VerfasserIn]
Beanlands, Rob S B [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy
Endomyocardial biopsy
Heart transplantation
Intravascular ultrasound
Journal Article
Myocardial blood flow
Positron emission tomography

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Date Revised 24.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03217786

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10.1016/j.jcmg.2023.10.003

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NLM364909099