Study on the mitral valve geometry of the healthy subjects assessed by real-time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography and real-time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1004-4477.2016.12.001
- VernacularTitle:经胸与经食管三维超声评估健康人二尖瓣构型的研究
- Author:
Jiping XUE
;
Hong LYU
;
Chunsong KANG
;
Min LUO
;
Xiaoyan CHEN
;
Junwang MIAO
- Keywords:
Echocardiography;
real-time three-dimensional;
Mitral valve
- From:
Chinese Journal of Ultrasonography
2016;25(12):1013-1020
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To assess the correlation and agreement of the mitral valve geometry parameters obtained by real-time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography ( RT-3D-TTE) and real-time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography ( RT-3D-TEE) . Methods RT-3D-TTE and RT-3D-TEE were performed on 29 healthy volunteers under conscious state and general anesthesia respectively . The mid-systole mitral valve parameters were analyzed by TomTec Imaging Systems . The repeatability test of the mitral valve parameters obtained by RT-3D-TTE was performed . The correlation and agreement of the mitral valve parameters obtained by RT-3D-TTE and RT-3D-TEE were assessed , and then the differences of mitral valve parameters between the two methods were compared . The study was approved by the Shanxi Dayi Hospital Ethics Committee ( Approval no .YXLL-2015-040) . Results ① The mitral valve parameters obtained by RT-3D-TTE showed excellent intra- and interobserver reproducibility ,in intra-observer and inter-observer with ICC > 0 .8 for all the parameters ,and the Bland-Altman plots displayed the average differences of anterior-posterior ( AP) ,anterolateral-posteromedial ( ALPM ) ,annular circumference ( AC) ,three-dimensional annular area ( AA3D ) for intra- and interobserver were 0 .009 ± 0 .11 , - 0 .008 ± 0 .10 , - 0 .036 ± 0 .32 ,0 .030 ± 0 .36 in intra-observer and - 0 .018 ± 0 .09 ,0 .087 ± 0 .20 , - 0 .037 ± 0 .44 ,- 0 .016 ± 0 .62 in inter-observers ,respectively . ② There were close correlations ( r = 0 .566 - 0 .870 , P <0 .01) and good agreement ( ICC = 0 .719 - 0 .931 , P < 0 .01) between the mitral valve parameters obtained by RT-3D-TTE and RT-3D-TEE . ③ The mitral valve parameters obtained by RT-3D-TTE were similar to those obtained by RT-3D-TEE .Among the parameters ,AP ,two-dimensional annular area ( AA 2D ) ,annular height ( AH) ,tenting volume ( TV) ,anterior leaflet length ( ALL) and posterior leaflet length ( PLL) had no statistically significant differences between the two methods ( P > 0 .05) . The rest of parameters including ALPM ,sphericity ( SPI) ,commissural diameter (CD) ,AC ,AA 3D ,nonplanarity angle ( NPA) ,tenting height ( T H) ,maximum annular displacement ( ADmax) and maximum annular displacement velocity ( ADVmax) had significant differences ( P < 0 .05) . Conclusions The mitral valve parameters obtained by RT-3D-TTE are highly reproducible and similar to those obtained by RT-3D-TEE ,and the two methods have close correlations and good agreement . Therefore ,RT-3D-TTE has higher potential clinical application value in the evaluation of mitral valve geometry .
