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ASSESSMENT OF AORTIC STIFFNESS WHICH IS A NEW CARDIOVASCULAR MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY PREDICTOR IN PATIENTS WITH OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME AND RELATION WITH SEVERITY OF THE DISEASE.
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ASSESSMENT OF AORTIC STIFFNESS WHICH IS A NEW CARDIOVASCULAR MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY PREDICTOR IN PATIENTS WITH OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME AND RELATION WITH SEVERITY OF THE DISEASE • Yusuf Tavil1, Oğuz Köktürk2, Tansu Ulukavak Çiftçi2, Asiye Kanbay2, Nihat Şen1, M.Rıdvan Yalçın1, Atiye Çengel1 Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Cardiology1 and Pulmonary Medicine2, Ankara
OSAS & Heart (1) • The recurrent sleep arousal in association with intermittent hypoxia and hypercapnia has been implicated in the occurrence of adverse cardiovascular outcomes
OSAS & Heart (2) • Hypertension • Ischemic heart disease • Cardiac arrhythmias • Cerebral infarction • Pulmonary hypertension • Subclinic Right&left heart failure
OSAS & Heart (3) • Associations between sleep apnea, hypertension, heart disease, and stroke raise the possibility of common factors and/or causal relationships between sleep apnea and cardiovascular disorders • Such links may be related to biochemical factors such as insulin, catecholamine, or cortisol that are increased in stress • Alternately obesity, sleep apnea, and other cardiovascular risk factors may share common metabolic pathways and therefore may be genetically determined
Arterial & Aortic Stiffness(1) • Arterial stiffness in large arteries has been reported to be the best predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality • The measurement of arterial stiffness; • Pressure/distension changes • Pulse wave velocity • Pulse wave analysis
Arterial & Aortic Stiffness(2) • Pulse pressure was measured by cuff sphygmomanometry of the brachial artery and not invasively in the ascending-Ao. However, several reports have demonstrated the excellent correlation of the non-invasively calculated aortic function indexes with indexes derived from aortography
PWV and PWA are subject to confounding factors – Blood pressure – increases PWV and AIx – Heart rate – may increase PWV and decrease – Body height – decreases AIx
Arterial & Aortic Stiffness(3) • Aortic distensibility is an important determinant of left ventricular (LV) function and coronary blood flow Additionally, aortic distensibility has been related to increased cardiovascular mortality in different populations.
Study protocol: • 40 patients with OSAS and 25 age and BMI-matched control without heart and pulmonary disease • Both groups have the same basal characteristics • Corelation analysis have made independent from age and body mass index
Aortic distensibility was determined non-invasively based on the relationship between changes in aortic diameter and pressure with each cardiac pulse. Ascending aorta was recorded at a level 3 cm above the aortic valve in the M-mode tracing guided by the two-dimensional echocardiogram in the parasternal long-axis view.
Aortic strain (%) = (aortic systolic diameter - diastolic diameter) x100 / diastolic diameter • Distensibility (10-6 cm2 dyn–1) = (2x Aortic strain) / (systolic pressure - diastolic pressure)
Results: * p<0.005
AHI ile Aortic strain ilişkisi AHI ile aotic distensibilite ilişkisi
In conclusion, decreased aortic stiffness parameters in OSAS patients according to severity of disease, is a new markers of elevated cardiovascular risk in these patients.