title: Clinical significance of iodine-123-15-(p-iodophenyl)-3-R, S-methylpentadecanoic acid myocardial scintigraphy in patients with aortic valve disease.
abstract: The present study sought to determine whether myocardial fatty acid metabolism as assessed with iodine-123-labeled 15-(p-iodophenyl)-3-R,S-methylpentadecanoic acid (BMIPP) scintigraphy is impaired in patients with aortic valve disease (AVD) and whether the degree of the metabolic abnormality reflects the severity of AVD. BMIPP scintigraphy was performed in 12 patients with aortic stenosis (AS), 14 patients with aortic regurgitation (AR), and 9 healthy volunteers, and from that the heart-mediastinum uptake ratio (H/M ratio) corrected by the left ventricular (LV) mass (U/Mass ratio) and the myocardial washout rate (WR) were obtained. The H/M ratio tended to be higher in patients than in healthy volunteers (3.3 +/- 0.7 for AS, 3.5 +/- 0.5 for AR, 3.0 +/- 0.3 for healthy volunteers), and the WR was significantly higher in patients than in healthy volunteers (42.8 +/- 9.1% for AS, 35.7 +/- 6.5% for AR, 19.6 +/- 9.1% for healthy volunteers, p<0.01). In the AS patients, the U/Mass ratio showed significant negative correlations (r=-0.79 to -0.90, all p<0.01) and the WR showed significant positive correlations (r=0.61 to 0.82, all p<0.01) with transaortic pressure gradient, LV wall thickness, and LV mass. Similarly, in AR patients these BMIPP parameters showed proportional changes to the LV volumes and LV mass (r=-0.79 to -0.83, all p<0.01 for U/Mass ratio, r=0.55 to 0.70, p<0.05 to <0.01 for WR). In the 9 patients who underwent aortic valve replacement, the BMIPP parameters tended to normalize with increasing U/Mass ratio (0.90 +/- 0.41 x 10(-2)/g to 1.34 +/- 0.59 x 10(-2)/g, p<0.05) and decreasing WR (41.9 +/- 8.8% to 35.4 +/- 9.2%, p<0.01) after surgery. Myocardial fatty acid metabolism as assessed with BMIPP scintigraphy was impaired in patients with aortic valve disease and the U/Mass ratio and WR reflect the severity. These parameters may be useful for the noninvasive assessment of the myocardial metabolic abnormalities caused by hemodynamic overload.
authors: Department of Internal Medicine, National Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan
authors: Yoritaka
authors: Y
authors: Otsuka
authors: Satoshi
authors: S
authors: Nakatani
authors: Kazuki
authors: K
authors: Fukuchi
authors: Yoshio
authors: Y
authors: Yasumura
authors: Kazuo
authors: K
authors: Komamura
authors: Masakazu
authors: M
authors: Yamagishi
authors: Yoriko
authors: Y
authors: Shimotsu
authors: Kunio
authors: K
authors: Miyatake
authors: Yoshio
authors: Y
authors: Ishida
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001023:Aortic Valve Prolapse / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000378:metabolism; D001692:Biological Transport; D004452:Echocardiography; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D007462:Iodobenzenes / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014018:Tissue Distribution; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D007462:Iodobenzenes; C049338:iodofiltic acid