Successful cardiac resynchronization therapy reduces negative septal work in patient-specific models of dyssynchronous heart failure.
In patients with dyssynchronous heart failure (DHF), cardiac conduction abnormalities cause the regional distribution of myocardial work to be non-homogeneous. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) using an implantable, programmed biventricular pacemaker/defibrillator, can improve the synchrony of...
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| author | Amanda Craine Adarsh Krishnamurthy Christopher T Villongco Kevin Vincent David E Krummen Sanjiv M Narayan Roy C P Kerckhoffs Jeffrey H Omens Francisco Contijoch Andrew D McCulloch |
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| description | In patients with dyssynchronous heart failure (DHF), cardiac conduction abnormalities cause the regional distribution of myocardial work to be non-homogeneous. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) using an implantable, programmed biventricular pacemaker/defibrillator, can improve the synchrony of contraction between the right and left ventricles in DHF, resulting in reduced morbidity and mortality and increased quality of life. Since regional work depends on wall stress, which cannot be measured in patients, we used computational methods to investigate regional work distributions and their changes after CRT. We used three-dimensional multi-scale patient-specific computational models parameterized by anatomic, functional, hemodynamic, and electrophysiological measurements in eight patients with heart failure and left bundle branch block (LBBB) who received CRT. To increase clinical translatability, we also explored whether streamlined computational methods provide accurate estimates of regional myocardial work. We found that CRT increased global myocardial work efficiency with significant improvements in non-responders. Reverse ventricular remodeling after CRT was greatest in patients with the highest heterogeneity of regional work at baseline, however the efficacy of CRT was not related to the decrease in overall work heterogeneity or to the reduction in late-activated regions of high myocardial work. Rather, decreases in early-activated regions of myocardium performing negative myocardial work following CRT best explained patient variations in reverse remodeling. These findings were also observed when regional myocardial work was estimated using ventricular pressure as a surrogate for myocardial stress and changes in endocardial surface area as a surrogate for strain. These new findings suggest that CRT promotes reverse ventricular remodeling in human dyssynchronous heart failure by increasing regional myocardial work in early-activated regions of the ventricles, where dyssynchrony is specifically associated with hypoperfusion, late systolic stretch, and altered metabolic activity and that measurement of these changes can be performed using streamlined approaches. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e4d13e1d47f745efbd1a782594e684a92025-08-20T03:28:09ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Computational Biology1553-734X1553-73582024-10-012010e101215010.1371/journal.pcbi.1012150Successful cardiac resynchronization therapy reduces negative septal work in patient-specific models of dyssynchronous heart failure.Amanda CraineAdarsh KrishnamurthyChristopher T VillongcoKevin VincentDavid E KrummenSanjiv M NarayanRoy C P KerckhoffsJeffrey H OmensFrancisco ContijochAndrew D McCullochIn patients with dyssynchronous heart failure (DHF), cardiac conduction abnormalities cause the regional distribution of myocardial work to be non-homogeneous. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) using an implantable, programmed biventricular pacemaker/defibrillator, can improve the synchrony of contraction between the right and left ventricles in DHF, resulting in reduced morbidity and mortality and increased quality of life. Since regional work depends on wall stress, which cannot be measured in patients, we used computational methods to investigate regional work distributions and their changes after CRT. We used three-dimensional multi-scale patient-specific computational models parameterized by anatomic, functional, hemodynamic, and electrophysiological measurements in eight patients with heart failure and left bundle branch block (LBBB) who received CRT. To increase clinical translatability, we also explored whether streamlined computational methods provide accurate estimates of regional myocardial work. We found that CRT increased global myocardial work efficiency with significant improvements in non-responders. Reverse ventricular remodeling after CRT was greatest in patients with the highest heterogeneity of regional work at baseline, however the efficacy of CRT was not related to the decrease in overall work heterogeneity or to the reduction in late-activated regions of high myocardial work. Rather, decreases in early-activated regions of myocardium performing negative myocardial work following CRT best explained patient variations in reverse remodeling. These findings were also observed when regional myocardial work was estimated using ventricular pressure as a surrogate for myocardial stress and changes in endocardial surface area as a surrogate for strain. These new findings suggest that CRT promotes reverse ventricular remodeling in human dyssynchronous heart failure by increasing regional myocardial work in early-activated regions of the ventricles, where dyssynchrony is specifically associated with hypoperfusion, late systolic stretch, and altered metabolic activity and that measurement of these changes can be performed using streamlined approaches.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012150 |
| spellingShingle | Amanda Craine Adarsh Krishnamurthy Christopher T Villongco Kevin Vincent David E Krummen Sanjiv M Narayan Roy C P Kerckhoffs Jeffrey H Omens Francisco Contijoch Andrew D McCulloch Successful cardiac resynchronization therapy reduces negative septal work in patient-specific models of dyssynchronous heart failure. PLoS Computational Biology |
| title | Successful cardiac resynchronization therapy reduces negative septal work in patient-specific models of dyssynchronous heart failure. |
| title_full | Successful cardiac resynchronization therapy reduces negative septal work in patient-specific models of dyssynchronous heart failure. |
| title_fullStr | Successful cardiac resynchronization therapy reduces negative septal work in patient-specific models of dyssynchronous heart failure. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Successful cardiac resynchronization therapy reduces negative septal work in patient-specific models of dyssynchronous heart failure. |
| title_short | Successful cardiac resynchronization therapy reduces negative septal work in patient-specific models of dyssynchronous heart failure. |
| title_sort | successful cardiac resynchronization therapy reduces negative septal work in patient specific models of dyssynchronous heart failure |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012150 |
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