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The aim of this study is to assess microvascular function as determined by a cardiovascular magnetic resonance measurement of whole-heart (global) perfusion reserve. The goal is to determine the prevalence of MVD in two common forms of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM). The hypothesis that an optimized technique will provide robust detection of MVD and that a multifaceted approach will provide new insights into the pathophysiology of MVD, including the influence of myocardial scarring upon the presence and severity of MVD.


Clinical Trial Description

Coronary microvascular dysfunction (MVD) has been implicated as an important marker of cardiac risk and has been thought to directly contribute to the pathogenesis of a wide variety of cardiomyopathies. For instance, MVD is believed to cause ischemia (with reduction in coronary flow reserve) in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) despite the presence of angiographically normal epicardial coronary arteries. The implication is that MVD in HCM may lead to the ventricular arrhythmias, sudden death, and heart failure. Similarly, patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM) have blunted coronary flow reserve, which appears to be independently associated with poor prognosis.

Several etiologic mechanisms have been proposed to explain the occurrence of MVD, including structural and functional abnormalities1:

1. increased microvascular resistance due to reduced vascular luminal caliber.

2. reduced density of microvessels associated with replacement scarring.

3. inappropriate vasoconstrictor responses.

4. inadequate vasodilator responses.

Unfortunately, these mechanisms are difficult to study in humans since no technique currently allows the direct visualization of the coronary microcirculation in vivo. Thus, MVD has been largely studied using non-invasive imaging techniques, such as positron emission tomography (PET) or single photon emitted computed tomography (SPECT).

Although these methods have provided insight into MVD, much remains unknown. For example, even the prevalence of MVD in patients with various types of cardiomyopathy is unclear, with different studies showing widely different rates.

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is increasingly being used in clinical practice to evaluate cardiac disease. CMR employs a multifaceted imaging approach with separate techniques used to acquire separate sets of raw data, providing information on cardiac morphology, function, regional myocardial ischemia, scarring, and global myocardial perfusion reserve. The advantage of this approach is that image artifacts in one set of data will not affect the quality of the other datasets, and the datasets in combination can be used to distinguish separate pathophysiologies that could confound image interpretation. For example, perfusion defects could be due to ischemia or scar tissue, but since the investigators will obtain both perfusion images and scar images, the investigators will be able to resolve the etiology. Additionally, CMR provides high spatial resolution (over 10-fold higher than PET), and hence partial volume affects will be kept to a minimum and variability in measurements will be reduced.

The aim of this study is to assess microvascular function as determined by a cardiovascular magnetic resonance measurement of whole-heart (global) perfusion reserve. The goal is to determine the prevalence of MVD in two common forms of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM). The hypothesis that an optimized technique will provide robust detection of MVD and that a multifaceted approach will provide new insights into the pathophysiology of MVD, including the influence of myocardial scarring upon the presence and severity of MVD. ;


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NCT number NCT03249272
Study type Interventional
Source Duke University
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Status Terminated
Phase Phase 4
Start date September 5, 2017
Completion date March 31, 2019

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