Abstract
Objective To investigate the application value of
echocardiography in the preoperative evaluation, intraoperative
monitoring and postoperative follow-up of patients with aortic valve
disease (AVD) receiving transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
Methods The clinical data of 79 AVD patients who received TAVR
from March 2021 to September 2022 at the Cardiology Centre of Yijishan
Hospital, Wannan Medical College, were retrospectively analysed.
Twenty-six patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS, including those
with pure severe AS and severe AS combined with mild aortic
regurgitation (AR)) were included in group I, 31 patients with severe AR
(including those with pure severe AR and severe AR combined with mild
AS) were included in group II, and the remaining 22 patients with AS
combined with AR (AS+AR) were included in group III. The patients’ basic
data, preoperative comorbidities, preoperative multislice computed
tomography (MSCT) assessment of the aortic root, intraoperative
conditions, preoperative and 1-month postoperative echocardiographic
parameters, and postoperative complications were collected.
Results All patients underwent TAVR through the femoral artery,
79 patients were monitored by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), 2
patients underwent TEE-guided transseptal puncture for retrograde
crossing of the valve, and 6 patients underwent valve-in-valve (VinV)
implantation. Immediate postoperative evaluation revealed 1 case of
moderate paravalvular leakage (PVL), 4 cases of low-to-moderate PVL, 14
cases of low PVL, 8 cases of trace PVL, and 48 cases of no PVL.
Comparing the data obtained at 1 month after surgery with preoperative
data, for group I, the maximum aortic valve blood flow velocity (AV
Vmax) and mean aortic valve pressure gradient (AVPGmean) significantly
decreased (P<0.001), the interventricular septal thickness
(IVST) and left ventricular (LV) posterior wall thickness (PWT)
decreased (P<0.001), and the left ventricular ejection
fraction (LVEF) increased (P<0.05); for group II, the
effective regurgitant orifice area (EROA), regurgitant volume (RVol) and
AR width significantly decreased (P<0.001), and the left
ventricular end-diastolic diameter (LVEDD) significantly decreased
(P<0.001); and for group III, AV Vmax and AVPGmean decreased
significantly (P<0.001), EROA, Rvol and AR width decreased
significantly (P<0.001), IVST decreased (P<0.05),
PWT decreased (P < 0.05), LVEDD significantly decreased
(P<0.001), and LVEF increased (P<0.05). During the
follow-up, 5 patients died, and 13 patients were implanted with
permanent pacemakers. Conclusion Echocardiography plays an
important role in the preoperative assessment, intraoperative monitoring
and postoperative follow-up of patients with different types of AVD
receiving TAVR and can provide a basis for the evaluation of efficacy
and prognosis of TAVR.