Regional myocardial function after intracoronary bone marrow cell injection in reperfused anterior wall infarction - a cardiovascular magnetic resonance tagging study

Trials have brought diverse results of bone marrow stem cell treatment in necrotic myocardium. This substudy from the Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation in Acute Myocardial Infarction trial (ASTAMI) explored global and regional myocardial function after intracoronary injection of autologous mononuclear bone marrow cells (mBMC) in acute anterior wall myocardial infarction treated with percutaneous coronary intervention.

Methods: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) tagging was performed 2-3 weeks and 6 months after revascularization in 15 patients treated with intracoronary stem cell injection (mBMC group) and in 13 controls without sham injection.

Global and regional left ventricular (LV) strain and LV twist were correlated to cine CMR and late gadolinium enhancement (LGE).

Results: In the control group myocardial function as measured by strain improved for the global LV (6 months: -13.1+/-2.4 versus 2-3 weeks: -11.9+/-3.4%, p=0.014) and for the infarct zone (-11.8+/-3.0 versus -9.3+/-4.1%, p=0.001), and significantly more than in the mBMC group (inter-group p=0.027 for global strain, respectively p=0.009 for infarct zone strain). LV infarct mass decreased (35.7+/-20.4 versus 45.7+/-29.5g, p=0.024), also significantly more pronounced than the mBMC group (inter-group p=0.034).

LV twist was initially low and remained unchanged irrespective of therapy.

Conclusions: LGE and strain findings quite similarly demonstrate subtle differences between the mBMC and control groups. Intracoronary injection of autologous mBMC did not strengthen regional or global myocardial function in this substudy.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT00199823.

Author: Einar HoppKetil LundeSvein SolheimSvend AakhusHarald ArnesenKolbjorn ForfangThor EdvardsenHans-Jorgen Smith
Credits/Source: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2011, 13:22

Published on: 2011-03-17

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