Significant reduction of left atrial volume concomitant with clinical improvement after percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation for drug-refractory hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, and its precise detection with multidetector CT.
In patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM), left atrial (LA) volume measurement is very important to provide prognostic information. Recent studies demonstrated that multidetector CT (MDCT) is useful to assess the changes in LA volume. Our aim was to examine the utility of a follow-up cardiac MDCT for long-term evaluation of the effect of percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation (PTSMA) on LA volume.



We studied a consecutive cohort of 20 patients with drug-refractory symptomatic HOCM after PTSMA. We evaluated LA volume analyses with cardiac MDCT on patients who underwent PTSMA as compared to echocardiography.



Before PTSMA, 75% of all patients had heart failure-associated symptoms in the New York Heart Association functional class III/IV. All patients experienced relief from heart failure-associated symptoms after PTSMA. Cardiac MDCT showed significant reduction in the index of maximum LA volume during follow-up compared to before PTSMA in the same way as in echocardiography (93.6±34.1 mL/m(2) vs 82.6±35.3 mL/m(2), p=0.035). A Bland-Altman plot showed small mean differences and limits of agreement in the measurements of the index of maximum LA volume before and after PTSMA between echocardiography and MDCT.



The follow-up cardiac MDCT was a useful tool to evaluate the effectiveness of PTSMA on reduction of LA volume. Cardiac MDCT might provide comparable measurements of the LA volume in patients with drug-refractory symptomatic HOCM before and after PTSMA compared to echocardiography.
Department of Cardiology , Keio University School of Medicine , Tokyo , Japan.
Yuichiro
Y
Maekawa
Department of Cardiology , Keio University School of Medicine , Tokyo , Japan.
Keitaro
K
Akita
Department of Cardiology , Keio University School of Medicine , Tokyo , Japan.
Hikaru
H
Tsuruta
Department of Diagnostic Radiology , Keio University School of Medicine , Tokyo , Japan.
Yoshitake
Y
Yamada
Department of Cardiology , Keio University School of Medicine , Tokyo , Japan.
Kentaro
K
Hayashida
Department of Cardiology , Keio University School of Medicine , Tokyo , Japan.
Shinsuke
S
Yuasa
Department of Cardiology , Keio University School of Medicine , Tokyo , Japan.
Mitsushige
M
Murata
Department of Diagnostic Radiology , Keio University School of Medicine , Tokyo , Japan.
Masahiro
M
Jinzaki
Department of Cardiology , Keio University School of Medicine , Tokyo , Japan.
Keiichi
K
Fukuda