Case Example • 75 year old man with systolic murmur • Asymptomatic but inactive • Echocardiography shows a thickened poorly mobile valve with an AV velocity of 4.0 m/s and mean gradien
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Asymptomatic Aortic Valve Disease
What Should We Do?
Michael Rinaldi, MD
The Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute
Carolinas HealthCare System
Charlotte NC USA michael.rinaldi@carolinashealthcare.org
Trang 2Disclosures
Nothing relevant to the presentation
Trang 32014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With
Valvular Heart Disease
2014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With
Valvular Heart Disease (Journal of the American College of
Cardiology) Published on March 3, 2014, available at:
http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/j.jacc.2014.02.536 and
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/early/2014/02/27/CIR.0000000000 000029.citation
The full-text guidelines are also available on the following Web sites: ACC ( www.cardiosource.org ) and AHA ( my.americanheart.org )
Trang 4Aortic Stenosis Severity Assessment
Indicator Mild Moderate Severe
CW Jet Velocity (m/sec) < 3.0 3.0-4.0 > 4.0
Mean Gradient (mm Hg) < 25 25 - 40 > 40
Valve Area (cm 2 ) > 1.5 1.0 – 1.5
< 1.0 (Index <0.6 cm2/m2)
Echo f/u 3-5 yrs
*(or Δ in sx’s) 1-2 yrs* Yearly
Circulation October 2008;118:e523-e661
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• 75 year old man with systolic murmur
• Asymptomatic but inactive
• Echocardiography shows a thickened poorly mobile valve with an AV velocity of 4.0 m/s and mean gradient of 42 mmHg
• Should this patient have AVR?
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Cardiac catheterization for hemodynamic
assessment is recommended in symptomatic
patients when noninvasive tests are inconclusive
or when there is a discrepancy between the
findings on noninvasive testing and physical
examination regarding severity of the valve lesion
Exercise testing is reasonable in selected
patients with asymptomatic severe VHD to 1)
confirm the absence of symptoms, or 2)
assess the hemodynamic response to
exercise, or 3) determine prognosis
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• ETT is performed
– Poor exercise tolerance
– Hypotensive response exercise
– Ventricular ectopy
• This patient is a high risk for mortality and is
functionally symptomatic and therefore
should have AVR
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Emerging Roll of CT Derived AV Calcium Score in AS Assessment
• AV calcium score >1274 in Women and >2065 in Men
associated with far worse prognosis
• AVR indicated
Clavel, M JACC 2014;64.1202-13
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Calcium Score
Trang 10A Twist on our Case Example
• 75 year old man with systolic murmur
• Asymptomatic but inactive
• Severe class 4 kidney disease, DM, moderate COPD, appears frail
• Echocardiography shows a thickened poorly
mobile valve with an AV velocity of 4.0 m/s and mean gradient of 42 mmHg
• Should this patient have AVR?
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meet ALL criteria
in this column )
Intermediate Risk (any 1 criteria in this column)
High Risk (any 1 criteria in this column)
Prohibitive Risk (any 1 criteria in this column)
Predicted risk with surgery
of death or major morbidity (all-cause) >50% at 1 y
procedure-Severe procedure-specific impediment
Risk Assessment for Surgical AVR
Combining STS Risk Estimate, Frailty, Major Organ System
Dysfunction, and Procedure-Specific Impediments
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• STS predicted mortality risk 8%
• Goal here is quality of life and symptoms relief
• We should not operate
• Consider TAVR when patient becomes
significantly symptomatic (> Class 2)
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• 65 year old man
• Asymptomatic and active
• Echocardiography shows a thickened poorly
mobile valve with an AV velocity of 5.0 m/s and mean gradient of 55 mmHg
• Normal LVEF
• No high risk markers on ETT
• Low risk for AVR
• Should this patient have AVR?
Trang 14Aortic Stenosis: Timing of Intervention (cont.)
AVR is reasonable for asymptomatic patients
with very severe AS (stage C1, aortic velocity
≥5 m/s) and low surgical risk
AVR is reasonable in asymptomatic patients (stage
C1) with severe AS and decreased exercise
tolerance or an exercise fall in BP
AVR is reasonable in symptomatic patients with
low-flow/low-gradient severe AS with reduced
LVEF (stage D2) with a low-dose dobutamine
stress study that shows an aortic velocity 4 m/s
valve area 1.0 cm2 at any dobutamine dose
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• 75 year old man with systolic murmur
• Dyspnea on exertion
• Echocardiography shows a thickened poorly
mobile valve with an AV velocity of 3.0 m/s and mean gradient of 30 mmHg
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AVR is reasonable for asymptomatic patients with
very severe AS (stage C1, aortic velocity ≥5 m/s)
and low surgical risk
AVR is reasonable in asymptomatic patients (stage
C1) with severe AS and decreased exercise
tolerance or an exercise fall in BP
AVR is reasonable in symptomatic patients with
low-flow/low-gradient severe AS with reduced
LVEF (stage D2) with a low-dose dobutamine
stress study that shows an aortic velocity 4
m/s (or mean pressure gradient 40 mm Hg)
with a valve area 1.0 cm 2 at any dobutamine
dose
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• DSE at 5, 10, and 20 mcg/kg/min shows LVEF increases and AV velocity of 4.0 m/s and mean gradient of 42 mmHg
• Consistent with “low flow low gradient”
severe AS
• This patient should have AVR (consider TAVR)
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• 75 year old man with systolic murmur
• Unstable angina with LM and 3 vessel CAD
• Scheduled to undergo CABG
• Echocardiography shows a thickened poorly mobile valve with an AV velocity of 3.0 m/s and mean gradient of 32 mmHg
• Should this patient have AVR?
Trang 19Aortic Stenosis: Timing of Intervention (cont.)
AVR is reasonable in symptomatic patients who
have low-flow/low-gradient severe AS (stage D3)
who are normotensive and have an LVEF ≥50% if
clinical, hemodynamic, and anatomic data support
valve obstruction as the most likely cause of
symptoms
AVR is reasonable for patients with moderate AS
(stage B) (aortic velocity 3.0–3.9 m/s) who are
undergoing other cardiac surgery
AVR may be considered for asymptomatic patients
with severe AS (stage C1) and rapid disease
progression and low surgical risk
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