Persistent ventricular adaptations in postoperative coarctation of the aorta
BP Kimball,
BL Shurvell,
S Houle,
JC Fulop,
H Rakowski,
and
PR McLaughlin
To evaluate ventricular performance and myocardial contractility after surgical correction of congenital coarctation of the aorta, we studied 25 patients (16 men and 9 women, mean age 26.1 years [range 19 to 34]), an average of 10.6 years (range 2 to 25) after repair. Radionuclide ventriculography at rest and exercise and digitized, quantitative two-dimensional echocardiography were performed. Data from derived, high resolution time-activity curves by radionuclide ventriculography, combined with noninvasive hemodynamic/ventricular volume data, were compared with values in an age- and sex-matched normal population. Despite essentially identical baseline and exercise hemodynamics, postoperative coarctation subjects demonstrated enhanced ventricular contraction, as determined by the peak ejection rate at rest (-3.79 versus -3.20 stroke volume/s, p less than 0.01) and exercise (-3.00 versus -2.90 stroke volume/s, p = NS), and overall ejection fraction at rest (56.4 versus 48.0%, p less than 0.01) and exercise (70.8 versus 59.3%, p less than 0.01). An intrinsic activation-contraction delay was observed, as illustrated by a prolonged time to peak ejection rate at rest (27.7 versus 21.5% of the RR interval, p less than 0.01) and exercise (28.4 versus 21.2% of the RR interval, p less than 0.01), and total systolic time at rest (50.2 versus 43.4% of the RR interval, p less than 0.01) and exercise (56.8 versus 50.4% of the RR interval, p less than 0.01). Although left ventricular meridinal wall stress was statistically indistinguishable (62 versus 74 mm Hg/mm2, p = NS), intrinsic myocardial contractility, as assessed by the peak systolic pressure/volume ratio, was increased in the postoperative coarctation group (1.88 versus 2.87 mm Hg/ml, p less than 0.01).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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