Jan L Bruse1, Abbas Khushnood1, Kristin McLeod2, Giovanni Biglino1, Maxime Sermesant3, Xavier Pennec3, Andrew M Taylor1, Tain-Yen Hsia4, Silvia Schievano1. 1. Centre for Cardiovascular Imaging, University College London, Institute of Cardiovascular Science & Cardiorespiratory Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, United Kingdom. 2. Simula Research Laboratory, Cardiac Modeling Department, Oslo, Norway; Inria, Asclepios Team, Sophia Antipolis, France. 3. Inria, Asclepios Team, Sophia Antipolis, France. 4. Centre for Cardiovascular Imaging, University College London, Institute of Cardiovascular Science & Cardiorespiratory Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: hsiat@gosh.nhs.uk.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Even after successful aortic coarctation repair, there remains a significant incidence of late systemic hypertension and other morbidities. Independently of residual obstruction, aortic arch morphology alone may affect cardiac function and outcome. We sought to uncover the relationship of arch 3-dimensional shape features with functional data obtained from cardiac magnetic resonance scans. METHODS: Three-dimensional aortic arch shape models of 53 patients (mean age, 22.3 ± 5.6 years) 12 to 38 years after aortic coarctation repair were reconstructed from cardiac magnetic resonance data. A novel validated statistical shape analysis method computed a 3-dimensional mean anatomic shape of all aortic arches and calculated deformation vectors of the mean shape toward each patient's arch anatomy. From these deformations, 3-dimensional shape features most related to left ventricular ejection fraction, indexed left ventricular end-diastolic volume, indexed left ventricular mass, and resting systolic blood pressure were extracted from the deformation vectors via partial least-squares regression. RESULTS: Distinct arch shape features correlated significantly with left ventricular ejection fraction (r = 0.42, P = .024), indexed left ventricular end-diastolic volume (r = 0.65, P < .001), and indexed left ventricular mass (r = 0.44, P = .014). Lower left ventricular ejection fraction, larger indexed left ventricular end-diastolic volume, and increased indexed left ventricular mass were identified with an aortic arch shape that has an elongated ascending aorta with a high arch height-to-width ratio, a relatively short proximal transverse arch, and a relatively dilated descending aorta. High blood pressure seemed to be linked to gothic arch shape features, but this did not achieve statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: Independently of hemodynamically important arch obstruction or residual aortic coarctation, specific aortic arch shape features late after successful aortic coarctation repair seem to be associated with worse left ventricular function. Analyzing 3-dimensional shape information via statistical shape modeling can be an adjunct to long-term risk assessment in patients after aortic coarctation repair.
OBJECTIVES: Even after successful aortic coarctation repair, there remains a significant incidence of late systemic hypertension and other morbidities. Independently of residual obstruction, aortic arch morphology alone may affect cardiac function and outcome. We sought to uncover the relationship of arch 3-dimensional shape features with functional data obtained from cardiac magnetic resonance scans. METHODS: Three-dimensional aortic arch shape models of 53 patients (mean age, 22.3 ± 5.6 years) 12 to 38 years after aortic coarctation repair were reconstructed from cardiac magnetic resonance data. A novel validated statistical shape analysis method computed a 3-dimensional mean anatomic shape of all aortic arches and calculated deformation vectors of the mean shape toward each patient's arch anatomy. From these deformations, 3-dimensional shape features most related to left ventricular ejection fraction, indexed left ventricular end-diastolic volume, indexed left ventricular mass, and resting systolic blood pressure were extracted from the deformation vectors via partial least-squares regression. RESULTS: Distinct arch shape features correlated significantly with left ventricular ejection fraction (r = 0.42, P = .024), indexed left ventricular end-diastolic volume (r = 0.65, P < .001), and indexed left ventricular mass (r = 0.44, P = .014). Lower left ventricular ejection fraction, larger indexed left ventricular end-diastolic volume, and increased indexed left ventricular mass were identified with an aortic arch shape that has an elongated ascending aorta with a high arch height-to-width ratio, a relatively short proximal transverse arch, and a relatively dilated descending aorta. High blood pressure seemed to be linked to gothic arch shape features, but this did not achieve statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: Independently of hemodynamically important arch obstruction or residual aortic coarctation, specific aortic arch shape features late after successful aortic coarctation repair seem to be associated with worse left ventricular function. Analyzing 3-dimensional shape information via statistical shape modeling can be an adjunct to long-term risk assessment in patients after aortic coarctation repair.
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