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ArticleInteractive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery2021

Joint preoperative transthoracic and intraoperative transoesophageal echocardiographic assessment of functional mitral regurgitation severity provides better association with long-term mortality.

Shyamal R Asher, Gregory W Malzberg, Chin Siang Ong, Raymond J Malapero, Huan Wang, Prem Shekar, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, Marc P Pelletier, Hari Mallidi, Mahyar Heydarpour and 8 more

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Article in Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Shyamal R AsherDepartment of Anesthesiology, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA.
Gregory W MalzbergDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Chin Siang OngDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Raymond J MalaperoDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Huan WangDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Prem ShekarDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Tsuyoshi KanekoDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Marc P PelletierDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Hari MallidiDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Mahyar HeydarpourDivision of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Douglas C ShookDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Stanton K ShernanDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
John A FoxDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
J Daniel MuehlschlegelDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Xinling XuDepartment of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Thy B NguyenDepartment of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Thoralf M SundtDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Simon C BodyDepartment of Anesthesiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USBoston University · USProvidence College · US

Funding

Genetic Etiology of Bicuspid Aortic Valve DiseaseR01HL114823 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BODY, SIMON C · 2012 to 2016
$2.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL114823
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesFunctional mitral regurgitation (MR) is observed with ischaemic heart disease or aortic valve disease. Assessing the value of mitral valve repair or replacement (MVR/P) is complicated by frequent discordance between preoperative transthoracic echocardiographic (pTTE) and intraoperative transoesophageal echocardiographic (iTOE) assessment of MR severity. We examined the association of pTTE and iTOE with postoperative mortality in patients with or without MR, at the time of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and/or aortic valve replacement without MVR/P.

methodsMedical records of 6629 patients undergoing CABG and/or aortic valve replacement surgery with or without functional MR and who did not undergo MVR/P were reviewed. MR severity assessed by pTTE and iTOE were examined for association with postoperative mortality using proportional hazards regression while accounting for patient and operative characteristics.

resultsIn 72% of 709 patients with clinically significant (moderate or greater) functional MR detected by pTTE, iTOE performed after induction of anaesthesia demonstrated a reduction in MR severity, while 2% of patients had increased severity of MR by iTOE. iTOE assessment of MR was better associated with long-term postoperative mortality than pTTE in patients with moderate MR [hazard ratio (HR) 1.31 (1.11-1.55) vs 1.02 (0.89-1.17), P-value for comparison of HR 0.025] but was not different for more than moderate MR [1.43 (0.96-2.14) vs 1.27 (0.80-2.02)].

conclusionsIn patients undergoing CABG and/or aortic valve replacement without MVR/P, these findings support intraoperative reassessment of MR severity by iTOE as an adjunct to pTTE in the prediction of mortality. Alone, these findings do not yet provide evidence for an operative strategy.

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Coronary Artery BypassEchocardiographyEchocardiography, TransesophagealHeart Valve Prosthesis ImplantationAgedHeart Valve ProsthesisHumansMaleMiddle AgedMitral Valve InsufficiencyMyocardial IschemiaProportional Hazards ModelsRetrospective StudiesTreatment OutcomeIntraoperative transoesophageal echocardiographicMitral regurgitationPreoperative transthoracic echocardiographic

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PMID33313764
PMCPMC8600023
OpenAlexW3111781977

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