Background: Hypertension is common in patients with coarctation of the aorta (CoA), even after successful repair. Increased aortic stiffness has been implicated in the pathology of CoA-associated hypertension. This study aimed to investigate aortic vascular function and its relationship with hypertension in well-repaired CoA-patients at long-term follow-up. Furthermore, we assessed the additive effect of hypertension to adverse arterioventricular coupling associated with increased aortic stiffness.
Methods: Twenty-two CoA-patients (age 30 ± 10.6 years) with successful surgical repair (n = 12) or balloon angioplasty (BA) (n = 10) between 3 months and 16 years of age with a follow-up of >10 years and 22 healthy controls underwent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), at mean follow-up of 29.3 years, to study aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV), aortic distensibility, global left ventricular (LV) function, LV dimensions, and LV myocardial deformation.
Results: CoA-patients had significantly increased aortic arch PWV (5.6 ± 1.9 m/s vs. 4.5 ± 1.0 m/s, P = .02) and decreased distensibility (4.5 ± 1.8 × 10-3 mmHg vs. 5.8 ± 1.8 × 10-3 mmHg, P = .04) compared to controls. Significant differences in aortic arch PWV were found between hypertensive patients, normotensive patients and controls (6.1 ± 1.8 m/s vs. 4.9 ± 1.9 m/s and 4.5 ± 1.0 m/s, respectively, P = .03). Aortic arch PWV and distensibility were correlated with systolic blood pressure (R = 0.37 and R = -0.37, respectively, P = .03 for both). Global LV function, LV mass, LV dimensions and myocardial deformation were similar in CoA-patients when compared to controls.
Conclusions: Central aortic stiffness is significantly increased in well-repaired CoA-patients long-term after repair, and is associated with hypertension. Global LV function, myocardial deformation indices and LV dimensions are however preserved.
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