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Assessment of hemodynamic effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor therapy in chronic aortic regurgitation by using velocity-encoded cine magnetic resonance imaging.

Long-term treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors has beneficial effects in patients with chronic aortic regurgitation by reducing left ventricular volumes and regurgitant fraction. Velocity-encoded cine magnetic resonance imaging can directly measure antegrade (forward stroke volume) and retrograde blood flow (regurgitant volume) in the ascending aorta. Velocity-encoded cine magnetic resonance imaging was used in 9 patients with moderate to severe aortic regurgitation (regurgitant fraction 49% +/- 17%) to measure regurgitant fraction, regurgitant volume, and forward stroke volume at baseline and 3 months after therapy with enalapril (mean dose 29 +/- 13 mg). Ten additional patients with aortic regurgitation without any drug therapy served as a control group. In the treatment group, systolic blood pressure slightly decreased from 132 +/- 20 mm Hg to 121 +/- 14 mm Hg (p = not significant), whereas diastolic blood pressure and heart rate (beats per minute) remained unchanged. Regurgitant fraction decreased in 6 patients (responders) from 49% +/- 19% to 39% +/- 20% (percentage change 24% +/- 14%, p = 0.002) and was unchanged in 3 patients (nonresponder, 49% +/- 19% vs 51% +/- 16%; p = not significant). In the responder group, forward stroke volume increased from 128 +/- 32 ml to 148 +/- 57 ml, whereas regurgitant volume remained unchanged (67 +/- 40 ml vs 65 +/- 51 ml). At baseline, the responder group had a significant higher total vascular resistance than the nonresponder group (998 +/- 538 dyne.sec.cm-5 vs 625 +/- 214 dyne.sec.cm-5; p < 0.05). With enalapril treatment, total vascular resistance in the responder group tended to decrease (891 +/- 576 dyne.sec.cm-5), but slightly increased in the nonresponder group (679 +/- 276 dyne.sec.cm-5). The control group showed no changes in regurgitant fraction, regurgitant volume, forward stroke volume, and total vascular resistance at follow-up.[1]

References

  1. Assessment of hemodynamic effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor therapy in chronic aortic regurgitation by using velocity-encoded cine magnetic resonance imaging. Globits, S., Blake, L., Bourne, M., Fujita, N., Duerinckx, A., Szolar, D., Cheitlin, M., Higgins, C.B. Am. Heart J. (1996) [Pubmed]
 
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