Cardiac CTA parameters predict mortality after transcatheter aortic valve replacement

According to ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), cardiac CTA-derived left atrium emptying fraction (LAEF) improves predictive performance of established clinical risk scores and may be used to assess patients' risk during pre-transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) workup and postprocedural surveillance.

LAEF derived from preprocedural cardiac CTA independently predicts mortality in patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing TAVR."

U. Joseph Schoepf, Corresponding Author, Medical University of South Carolina's Heart and Vascular Center

Schoepf and colleagues' retrospective single-center study included 175 patients with severe aortic stenosis (92 male, 83 female; median age, 79 years) who underwent cardiac CTA for clinical pre-TAVR assessment. Maximum and minimum left atrium volumes were calculated using biplane area-length measurements, and the values were indexed to body surface area: LAVImax and LAVImin, respectively.

In their sample, a reduced LAEF independently predicted all-cause mortality within 24 months post-procedure (hazard ratio 0.97 [0.94–0.99]; p=.02). Moreover, when incorporating LAEF, the c-index of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Predicted Risk of Mortality significantly increased from 0.64 to 0.70.

Acknowledging that atrial parameters are more commonly assessed using transthoracic echocardiography, both atrial volume and atrial function can be reliably assessed using cardiac CTA, "which now represents the gold standard for preprocedural planning in patients undergoing TAVR," the authors of this AJR article added.

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American Roentgen Ray Society

Journal reference:

Aquino, G.J., et al. (2021) Utility of Functional and Volumetric Left Atrial Parameters Derived From Preprocedural Cardiac CTA in Predicting Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. American Journal of Roentgenology. doi.org/10.2214/AJR.21.26775.

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Tags: Aortic Stenosis, Healthcare, Heart, Imaging, Medical Imaging, Medicine, Mortality, OCT, Radiology, Research, Stenosis, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Vascular, X-Ray

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