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Heart Valve selection. Weerachai Nawarawong M.D. Inter-hospital conference March 19, 2011. Mechanical valve advantage. Children Patients <40 yrs High reoperation risk Small annular size Atrial fibrillation Pregnancy desired Patients > 70 yrs High thromboembolism risk
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Heart Valve selection Weerachai Nawarawong M.D. Inter-hospital conference March 19, 2011
Mechanical valve advantage • Children • Patients <40 yrs • High reoperation risk • Small annular size • Atrial fibrillation • Pregnancy desired • Patients > 70 yrs • High thromboembolism risk • High hemorrhage risk Tissue valve advantage Akins CW: Ann Thorac Surg 1991,52:161-172
If one can choose the valve prosthesis one would choose: • “One valve for life”
Myths about Mechanical Valves • You’ll Never Need Another Operation • You can Live without Restrictions • Risks of TE/ACH are Minimal • Coumadin is Not a Problem
Ideal valve • Good hemodynamic • Quiet • Require no anticoagulation • Last for life time • Cheap • Easy to implant
Valve Prosthesis • Mechanical • types: caged-ball, tilting-disk, bi-leaflet • advantage: durability • limitation: thrombogenicity • Bioprosthetic • types: heterografts, homografts • advantage: short term anticoagulation • limitation: structural failure • leaflet calcification & tissue degeneration leading to valvular regurgitation • Rate of porcine valve degeneration 26% (aortic), 39% (mitral) in 10 yrs
Homografts • 1956 - first aortic valve homograft was used in the descending thoracic aorta for aortic regurgitation • 1962 - first sub-coronary use • High incidence of post-op failure * (years) 5 10 15 20 survival rate (%) 85 66 53 38 re-operation (%) 22 62 85 95 * Circulation 1991; 84(suppl 3):III81-III88
Durability and hemodynamic Bleeding and thromboembolism
Wall Street Journal 8//16//07 • Warfarin “is the second-most-likely drug, after insulin, to send Americans to the emergency room”. • By one estimate, it accounts for 43,000 ER visits a year in the U.S.
Incidence of major embolismafter mechanical valve replacement • Absence of antithrombotic therapy • 4% per year • plus 1.8% per year risk of valve thrombosis • Antiplatelet therapy • 2.2% per year • plus 1.6% per year risk of valve thrombosis • Wafarin therapy • 1% per year • 0.8% per year with an aortic valve • 1.3% per year with a mitral valve • plus 0.2% per year risk of valve thrombosis • Incidence of major bleeding in patients treated with warfarin • 1.4 per 100 patient-years. (Circulation. 1994;89:635-641.)
IncidenceRatesofValveThrombosisandMajorandTotalEmbolismsWith CoumadinTherapy: EffectofValvePosition IncidenceRatesper 100 Patient-Years (95% ConfidenceIntervals) ValvePositionValveMajorTotal ThrombosisEmbolismEmbolism* Aortic 0.1 (0.1-0.2) 0.8 (0.7-0.9) 1.1 (1.0-1.3) Mitral 0.5 (0.3-0.7) 1.3 (1.1-1.5) 2.7 (2.3-3.0) Both 0.4 (0.2-0.7) 1.4 (1.0-1.9) 2.1 (1.6-2.7) (Circulation. 1994;89:635-641.)
Typesofprostheticvalvesandthrombogenicity TypeofvalveModelThrombogenicity Mechanical CagedballStarrEdwards + + + + SingletiltingdiscBjorkShiley, MedtronicHall + + + BileafletStJudeMedical, SorinBicarbon, Carbomedics + + Bioprosthetic HeterograftsCarpentierEdwards, TissueMed (Aspire), + to + + HancockII Homografts +
Zellner et al “Long term experience With the St.Jude Medical Valve Prosthesis” South Carolina,USA AVR 418 pts, mean age 54.8yrs Re-operation inc. 1.0%/pt/y
Gradient Comparison of mean pressure gradients for commonly implanted prosthetic valves.
EOA Comparison of EOAs for commonly implanted prosthetic valves.
Late Overall Survival and Freedom From Cardiovascular Death Non significant PPM Moderate PPM Severe PPM J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2009;53;39-47
There are trends in the United States and Europe toward the increasing use of tissue rather than mechanical valves and toward the use of bioprostheses in progressively younger patients • Dagenais F, Cartier P, Voisine P, Desaulniers D, Perron J, Maillot R, Raymond G, Métras J, Doyle D, Mathieu P. Which biologic valve should we select for the 45- to 65-year-old age group requiring aortic valve replacement? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2005;129:1041–1049.
Reasons for increasing use of Bioprosthesis • Newer generation bioprosthesis • more durable and better. • Better fixation technique • Better anticalcification technique • Better long term result in newer generation valve • The risks of reoperation have continued to decrease • Patients undergoing AVR today are older population • Young patients are often reluctant to accept warfarin therapy and the activity constraints associated with anticoagulants. • There are survival benefit for patients receiving bioprostheses, in age > 65 years .
Two historic randomized clinical trials compared outcomes after valve replacement with a first-generation porcine heterograft and the original Bjork-Shiley tilting-disc mechanical valve: • The Edinburgh Heart Valve Trial, conducted between 1975 and 1979 with an average follow-up of 12 years, • The Veteran Affairs (VA) Cooperative Study on Valvular Heart Disease, conducted between 1979 and 1982 with an average follow-up of 15 years.
The Edinburgh trial • a small survival advantage associated with a mechanical valve in the aortic but not in the mitral position; • both trials showed • increased bleeding associated with mechanical valves • increased reoperation with tissue valves; • structural failure of tissue valves and overall thromboembolic complications were greater after mitral than after aortic valve replacement.
A meta-analysis of 32 articles evaluated mortality from 15 mechanical and 23 biological valve series including 17,439 patients and 101, 819 patient-years of follow-up. • no difference in riskcorrected mortality between mechanical and bioprosthetic aortic valves regardless of patient age • choice between a tissue and mechanical valve should not be based on age alone. • Lund O, Bland M. Risk-corrected impact of mechanical versus bioprosthetic valves on long-term mortality after aortic valve replacement. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2006;132:20 –26.
Retrospective study comparing mechanical and tissue aortic valve replacement in 3062 patients with combined follow-up of 22 182 patientyears • age but not valve type was predictive of valve-related mortality. • reoperation was higher after tissue aortic valve replacement only for patients ≤60 years of age, • combined valverelated morbidity was higher after mechanical valve replacement for all patients 40 years of age. • Chan V, Jamieson WRE, Germann E, Chan F, Miyagishima RT, Burr LH, Janusz MT, Ling H, Fradet GJ. Performance of bioprostheses and mechanical prostheses assessed by composite of valve-related complications to 15 years after aortic valve replacement. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2006;131:1267–1273.
Hypothetical model for the structural deterioration of bioprosthetic valves
Advances in tissue fixation and anticalcification treatment have resulted in current-generation bioprostheses that have superior durability
Freedom from structural valve deterioration • Carpentier-Edwards pericardial aortic valve (age 65) • 94% at 10 years • 77% at 15 years • 10% chance that a 65-year-old patient would require reoperation before 80 years of age. • Third-generation bioprostheses may be even more durable, with • 92.8% at 12 years (mean age of 54 years) • In addition, advances in myocardial protection and cardiac surgical techniques have led to lower risks at reoperation, making the prospect of redo valve surgery less dangerous. • Banbury MK, Cosgrove DM III, White JA, Blackstone EH, Frater RWM, Okies JE. Age and valve size effect on the long-term durability of the Carpentier-Edwards aortic pericardial bioprosthesis. Ann Thorac Surg. 2001;72:753–757. • Bach DS, Metras J, Doty JR, Yun KL, Dumesnil JG, Kon ND. Freedom from structural valve deterioration among patients 60 years of age and younger undergoing Freestyle aortic valve replacement. J Heart Valve Dis. In press.
Freedom from structural valve deterioration after 15 years • 2ndgeneration Hancock II aortic valve • 81.5% ( age 65 years) • 1stgeneration Hancock bioprosthesis. • 57.4% (age 69 years ) • David TE, Ivanov J, Armstrong S, Feindel CM, Cohen G. Late results of heart valve replacement with the Hancock II bioprosthesis. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2001;121: 268–278. • Cohn LH, Collins JJ Jr, Rizzo RJ, Adams DH, Couper GS, Aranki SF. Twenty-year follow-up of the Hancock modified orifice porcine aortic valve. Ann Thorac Surg. 1998; 66(suppl):S30 –S34.
M.O’Brien et al “The Homograft Aortic Valve:29 yrs” J. Heart V. Dis 2001;10:334-345 1,022 patients mean age 47yrs: Actuarial Survival