Anna I Mishkina1, Victor V Saushkin1, Tariel A Atabekov2, Svetlana I Sazonova1, Vladimir V Shipulin1, Samia Massalha3, Roman E Batalov2, Sergey V Popov2, Konstantin V Zavadovsky4. 1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cardiology Research Institute, Tomsk National Research Medical Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kievskaya Str 111A, Tomsk, Russia, 634012. 2. Department of Interventional Arrhythmology, Cardiology Research Institute, Tomsk National Research Medical Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia. 3. Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel. 4. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cardiology Research Institute, Tomsk National Research Medical Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kievskaya Str 111A, Tomsk, Russia, 634012. konstzav@gmail.com.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Impaired cardiac sympathetic activity and mechanical dyssynchrony (MD) are associated with poor prognosis in patients with heart failure (HF) after cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). The study aims to assess the significance of scintigraphic evaluation of cardiac sympathetic innervation and contractility in predicting response to CRT in patients with ischemic and non-ischemic chronic HF. METHODS AND RESULTS: The study includes 58 HF patients, who were referred for CRT. Prior to CRT all patients underwent 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (123I-MIBG) imaging and gated myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) using a cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) SPECT/CT device. At a one-year follow-up post-CRT, the delayed heart-to-mediastinum 123I-MIBG uptake ratio was an independent predictor of CRT response in non-ischemic HF patients (OR 1.469; 95% CI 1.076-2.007, p = .003). In ischemic HF patients the MD index histogram bandwidth (HBW) obtained by CZT-gated MPI had a predictive value (OR 1.06, 95% CI 1.001-1.112, p = .005) to CRT response. CONCLUSION: CRT response can be predicted by cardiac 123I-MIBG scintigraphy, specifically by the heart-to-mediastinum ratio in non-ischemic HF and by the MD index HBW in ischemic HF. These results suggest the value of a potentially useful algorithm to improve outcomes in HF patients who are candidates for CRT.
BACKGROUND: Impaired cardiac sympathetic activity and mechanical dyssynchrony (MD) are associated with poor prognosis in patients with heart failure (HF) after cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). The study aims to assess the significance of scintigraphic evaluation of cardiac sympathetic innervation and contractility in predicting response to CRT in patients with ischemic and non-ischemic chronic HF. METHODS AND RESULTS: The study includes 58 HF patients, who were referred for CRT. Prior to CRT all patients underwent 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (123I-MIBG) imaging and gated myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) using a cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) SPECT/CT device. At a one-year follow-up post-CRT, the delayed heart-to-mediastinum 123I-MIBG uptake ratio was an independent predictor of CRT response in non-ischemic HF patients (OR 1.469; 95% CI 1.076-2.007, p = .003). In ischemic HF patients the MD index histogram bandwidth (HBW) obtained by CZT-gated MPI had a predictive value (OR 1.06, 95% CI 1.001-1.112, p = .005) to CRT response. CONCLUSION: CRT response can be predicted by cardiac 123I-MIBG scintigraphy, specifically by the heart-to-mediastinum ratio in non-ischemic HF and by the MD index HBW in ischemic HF. These results suggest the value of a potentially useful algorithm to improve outcomes in HF patients who are candidates for CRT.
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