Alice Wang1, Santos E Cabreriza2, Bin Cheng3, Jack S Shanewise4, Henry M Spotnitz5. 1. Department of Surgery, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY; Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC. 2. Department of Surgery, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY. 3. Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, New York, NY. 4. Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY. 5. Department of Surgery, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY. Electronic address: hms2@columbia.edu.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Effects of temporary biventricular pacing after cardiopulmonary bypass are unpredictable, and the utility of speckle-tracking echocardiography in this setting is unclear. Accordingly, speckle-tracking analysis of transgastric echocardiograms taken during cardiac surgery was assessed as a potential tool to measure strain, synchrony, and twist as indices to predict response. DESIGN: Prospective observational study, in part, with a randomized controlled study of temporary permanent biventricular pacing after cardiopulmonary bypass. SETTING: Single-center study at university-affiliated tertiary care hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Twenty-one cardiac surgery candidates with ejection fraction ≤40% and QRS duration ≥100 ms or who were undergoing double-valve surgery. INTERVENTIONS: Transgastric views of the basal, midpapillary, and apical levels of the left ventricle were acquired before and after bypass. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Midpapillary sections were analyzable in 38% of patients. The remainder had epicardial borders extending beyond the field of view (24%) or inadequate image quality (38%). Only 9% of basal or apical sections were analyzable. Midpapillary radial strain and synchrony changed insignificantly after bypass. Variation in fractional area change correlated with changes in radial strain (p = 0.041) but not with synchrony. CONCLUSIONS: Intraoperative transgastric echocardiography is inadequate for speckle-tracking analysis with current techniques. Intraoperative predictors of temporary biventricular pacing response are lacking.
OBJECTIVES: Effects of temporary biventricular pacing after cardiopulmonary bypass are unpredictable, and the utility of speckle-tracking echocardiography in this setting is unclear. Accordingly, speckle-tracking analysis of transgastric echocardiograms taken during cardiac surgery was assessed as a potential tool to measure strain, synchrony, and twist as indices to predict response. DESIGN: Prospective observational study, in part, with a randomized controlled study of temporary permanent biventricular pacing after cardiopulmonary bypass. SETTING: Single-center study at university-affiliated tertiary care hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Twenty-one cardiac surgery candidates with ejection fraction ≤40% and QRS duration ≥100 ms or who were undergoing double-valve surgery. INTERVENTIONS: Transgastric views of the basal, midpapillary, and apical levels of the left ventricle were acquired before and after bypass. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Midpapillary sections were analyzable in 38% of patients. The remainder had epicardial borders extending beyond the field of view (24%) or inadequate image quality (38%). Only 9% of basal or apical sections were analyzable. Midpapillary radial strain and synchrony changed insignificantly after bypass. Variation in fractional area change correlated with changes in radial strain (p = 0.041) but not with synchrony. CONCLUSIONS: Intraoperative transgastric echocardiography is inadequate for speckle-tracking analysis with current techniques. Intraoperative predictors of temporary biventricular pacing response are lacking.
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