title: [Perfusion, Metabolism and Regional Myocardial Contractility in Patients With Valvular Heart Disease: a Long-Term Follow-Up After Valve Replacement].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To perform complex assessment of myocardial perfusion, metabolism, and regional contractility in patients with valvular heart disease (VHD) in remote period after surgical correction of heart defects.
  
  
  METHODS
  We examined 30 patients with VHD in 1-8 years after heart valve replacement because of mitral (n=13) or aortic (n=17) valve defects of the following etiology: rheumatic heart disease (n=10), degeneration of connective tissue (n=13), infective endocarditis (n=7). For assessment of myocardial perfusion, metabolism, and regional contractility, we used single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Myocardium of patients who had undergone surgical correction of heart valve defects was characterized by dominating diffuse sclerotic changes localized mostly in basal segments. Hibernating myocardium was a less frequent finding. There were segments of borderline state with normal parameters of metabolism but slight impairment of perfusion without pronounced disturbances of kinetics. Patients with infectious etiology of valvular defects had combined perfusion and metabolic changes in multiple myocardial segments. Extensive derangements of perfusion and metabolism were characteristic for patients with connective tissue degeneration.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Signs of cardiac failure caused by disturbances of myocardial perfusion and metabolism in patients with valvular heart disease can persist even after successful correction of valvular defect with normalization of intracardiac hemodynamics.
authors.affiliation: GBOU VPO Pervyi Sankt-Peterburgskii gosudarstvennyi medicinskii universitet im. akad. I.P. Pavlova, Sankt-Peterburg.
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authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Mayorov
authors.affiliation: GBOU VPO Pervyi Sankt-Peterburgskii gosudarstvennyi medicinskii universitet im. akad. I.P. Pavlova, Sankt-Peterburg.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Davydenko
authors.affiliation: GBOU VPO Pervyi Sankt-Peterburgskii gosudarstvennyi medicinskii universitet im. akad. I.P. Pavlova, Sankt-Peterburg.
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authors.affiliation: GBOU VPO Pervyi Sankt-Peterburgskii gosudarstvennyi medicinskii universitet im. akad. I.P. Pavlova, Sankt-Peterburg.
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Lapekin
authors.affiliation: GBOU VPO Pervyi Sankt-Peterburgskii gosudarstvennyi medicinskii universitet im. akad. I.P. Pavlova, Sankt-Peterburg.
authors.forename: A A
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authors.affiliation: GBOU VPO Pervyi Sankt-Peterburgskii gosudarstvennyi medicinskii universitet im. akad. I.P. Pavlova, Sankt-Peterburg.
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
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