Measurement of Myocardial Stiffness Using Elastometry in Patients With Aortic Stenosis (ELASTOP-AS)

Epicardial Measurement of Myocardial Stiffness on Beating Heart and Non-beating Heart During a Programmed Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement for Aortic Stenosis

Elastography is a new non-invasive medical technique for measuring the stiffness at a distance from a tissue. Recent advances in the development of elastography sequences for cardiac exploration suggest a more clinical approach to cardiac elastography. This study propose to compare myocardial stiffness of a group of coronary bypass patients without hypertrophic left ventricular remodeling or sequelae of myocardial infarction versus a group of patients who should benefit from a surgical aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis.

The hypothesis is that the physiological adaptation to pressure overload constituted by aortic stenosis is responsible for a significant increase in myocardial stiffness compared to a reference group.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Aortic Valve Stenosis
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: Aixplorer Mach30

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 98
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Caen, France
    • CHU Caen
  • Rouen, France
    • CHU de Rouen

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Group I (aortic stenosis):

  1. Patient undergoing planned surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for aortic stenosis (aortic valve area <1cm² or an aortic valve area index <0.6 cm² / m²);

• Group II: coronary bypass 2. Patient undergoing planned myocardial revascularization surgery (coronary bypass);
• Groups I and II 3. Patient over 18 years of age; 4. Patient having read and understood the information letter and having signed the consent form; 5. Patient affiliated or benefiting from a health insurance scheme

Exclusion Criteria:

• Group II: coronary bypass

  1. Ratio in TM mode of the wall thickness over the radius of the left ventricle (h / r [0.45]) confirmed by the TTE;
  2. Scar of myocardial infarction defined by an ECG anomaly and / or hypo-akinesia on TTE, and / or a late enhancement in MRI;
  3. Acute coronary syndrome less than 3 months old;
  4. Significant aortic stenosis (Vmax> 1.5 m / s);
  5. Anomaly of segmental kinetics;
  6. Presence of left ventricular hypertrophy
• Groups I and II 7. Mitral valve disease (> 1/4 confirmed by TTE); 8. Aortic insufficiency (> 1/4 confirmed by TTE); 9. Left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) <50% confirmed by TTE; 10. Hospitalization for heart failure less than 3 months old; 11. Urgent surgery; 12. Infiltrative heart disease; 13. Hostile pericardium defined by a history of mediastinal radiotherapy, tamponade or complicated pericarditis; 14. Decompensated or severe arterial hypertension. 15. Functional inability to walk preventing the performance of the walk test; 16. Proven pregnant woman (positive urine pregnancy test) or breastfeeding or absence of effective contraception (as defined by the WHO) or postmenopausal woman without confirmation diagnosis obtained (amenorrhea not medically induced for at least 12 months before the initiation visit) ; 17. Person deprived of their liberty by an administrative or judicial decision or person placed under the protection of justice / guardianship or curatorship 18. History of illness or psychological or sensory abnormality likely to prevent the subject from fully understanding the conditions required for participating in the protocol or preventing him from giving his informed consent

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement; Patients with aortic stenosis	Device: Aixplorer Mach30; To measure myocardial stiffness by ShearWave elastography on not beating heart
Other: Reference; Coronary bypass patients without hypertrophic left ventricular remodeling or sequelae of myocardial infarction	Device: Aixplorer Mach30; To measure myocardial stiffness by ShearWave elastography on not beating heart

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
to compare myocardial stiffness by ShearWave elastography on not beating heart in two groups of patients referred for surgery	The main outcome measure is evaluated by ShearWave elastography with the measurement of Young modulus on non-beating heart	Day 1

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
To compare the diastolic myocardial stiffness of the beating heart with the myocardial stiffness of the non-beating heart	This outcome measure is evaluated by ShearWave elastography with the measurement of Young modulus on non-beating heart	Day 1
To compare epicardial and trans-thoracic diastolic myocardial stiffness	This outcome measure is evaluated by elastography using the measurement of Young modulus in epicardial (using the linear probe) and transthoracic (using the scanning probe).	Day 1
Correlation between the diastolic myocardial stiffness of the beating heart and the non-beating heart with conventional diastolic indices	This outcome measure is evaluated: by ShearWave elastography with the measurement of Young modulus on non-beating heart; by conventional ultrasound criteria (peak e', peak E, volume of the left atrium calculated by simpson biplanes, maximum velocity of tricuspid insufficiency).	Day 1
Correlation between the diastolic myocardial stiffness of the beating heart and the non-beating heart with heart failure parameters	This outcome measure is evaluated: by ShearWave elastography with the measurement of Young modulus on non-beating heart; by heart failure parameters defined by NYHA class, the walking test and the BNP assay	Day 1
Correlation between the diastolic myocardial stiffness of the beating heart and the non-beating heart with left ventricular mass indexed to the body surface	This outcome measure is evaluated: by ShearWave elastography with the measurement of Young modulus on non-beating heart; by LV mass indexed to the body surface calculated by the cardiac mass measuring by ultrasound indexed to the body surface	Day 1
Correlation between the diastolic myocardial stiffness of the beating heart and the non-beating heart and the prognosis	This outcome measure is evaluated: by ShearWave elastography with the measurement of Young modulus on non-beating heart; by a combined index combining all rehospitalization for heart failure, increase in heart failure treatment and cardiac death	1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital, Rouen
• Collaborators: University Hospital, Caen
• Investigators: Study Director: Eric Saloux, MD, University Hospital, Caen

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 30, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 14, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): June 14, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 9, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 21, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): April 24, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): September 10, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 8, 2025
• Last Verified: April 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Elastography; Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement; Myocardial stiffness
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Aortic Valve Disease; Cardiovascular Diseases; Heart Diseases; Heart Valve Diseases; Ventricular Outflow Obstruction; Aortic Valve Stenosis
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2019/0254/HP

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No