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Neurocognition and Cerebral Lesion Burden in High-Risk Patients Before Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
- Source :
- JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 11:384-392
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- Objectives The authors sought to determine baseline neurocognition before transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and its correlations with pre-TAVR brain imaging. Background TAVR studies have not shown a correlation between diffusion-weighted image changes and neurocognition. The authors wanted to determine the extent to which there was already impairment at baseline that correlated with cerebrovascular disease. Methods SENTINEL (Cerebral Protection in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement) trial patients had cognitive assessments of attention, processing speed, executive function, and verbal and visual memory. Z-scores were based on normative means and SDs, combined into a primary composite z-score. Brain magnetic resonance images were obtained pre-TAVR on 3-T scanners with a T2 fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) sequence. Scores ≤−1.5 SD below the normative mean (7th percentile) were considered impairment. Paired t tests compared within-subject scores, and chi-square goodness-of-fit compared the percentage of subjects below −1.5 SD. Correlation and regression analyses assessed the relationship between neurocognitive z-scores and T2 lesion volume. Results Among 234 patients tested, the mean composite z-score was −0.65 SD below the normative mean. Domain scores ranged from −0.15 SD for attention to −1.32 SD for executive function. On the basis of the ≥1.5 SD normative reference, there were significantly greater percentages of impaired scores in the composite z-score (13.2%; p = 0.019), executive function (41.9%; p Conclusions There was a significant proportion of aortic stenosis patients with impaired cognition before TAVR, with a relationship between baseline cognitive function and lesion burden likely attributable to longstanding cerebrovascular disease. These findings underscore the importance of pre-interventional testing and magnetic resonance imaging in any research investigating post-surgical cognitive outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease.
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- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Magnetic resonance imaging
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery
medicine.disease
Lesion
03 medical and health sciences
Stenosis
0302 clinical medicine
Valve replacement
Neuroimaging
Internal medicine
Aortic valve stenosis
medicine
Cardiology
medicine.symptom
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Neurocognitive
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Details
- ISSN :
- 19368798
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........14255c9871bb7a2e9e5c96f15b8dce1a