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Detection of Right Ventricular Dysfunction by Portal Vein Doppler After Cardiac Surgery

An interventional study of cardiac surgery involving mitral or tricuspid valve repair procedure, with cardiopulmonary bypass in Postoperative Complications, Heart Diseases and Heart Failure, sponsored by CMC Ambroise Paré. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-03-02.

Sponsored by CMC Ambroise Paré · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
70
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Right ventricular (RV) failure after cardiac surgery is associated with morbidity and mortality, but is hard to diagnose with conventional echocardiographic means. RV dysfunction may be associated with hepatic congestion, which may have an effect on portal veinous flow, but this has not been extensively. The investigators aimed determine whether an increased pulsatility in the portal venous flow was associated with RV dysfunction, after cardiac surgery at risk of RV dysfunction: mitral and tricuspid valve procedures.

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In cardiac surgical patients, RV dysfunction is associated with organ hypoperfusion and venous congestion leading to increased morbidity and mortality.

Non-invasive methods used to assess RV function are 2D-echocardiographic measurement of tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE), RV ejection fraction (EF), RV fractional area change (FAC), 3D assessment of RV function, tissue Doppler assessment of velocities, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Though MRI is the gold standard method to assess RV function, it cannot be used in the perioperative period.

In the present prospective observational study, The investigators investigated the association between the pattern of portal venous flow and RV function as assessed by echocardiography in the postoperative period.

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Conditions studied

  • Postoperative Complications
  • Heart Diseases
  • Heart Failure
  • Heart Valve Diseases

Keywords

  • Cardiac surgery
  • Echocardiography
  • Right ventricular dysfunction
  • Doppler
  • Portal vein Doppler
  • Ventricular function
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In context

Postoperative Complications

1,332 studies on the registry are indexed under Postoperative Complications; 311 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 70 is below the median of 114 across 766 interventional studies indexed under Postoperative Complications.

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Lead sponsor

CMC Ambroise Paré is the lead sponsor of 47 studies on the registry; 8 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • More than 18 years old
  • Ability to provide an
  • Planned mitral and / or tricuspid valve surgery under cardiopulmonary bypass.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Insufficient echogenicity
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
70 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Adults patients undergoing mitral and / or tricuspid valve surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass.

    Other: cardiac surgery involving mitral or tricuspid valve repair procedure, with cardiopulmonary bypass

Interventions

  • Othercardiac surgery involving mitral or tricuspid valve repair procedure, with cardiopulmonary bypass

    cardiac surgery involving mitral or tricuspid valve repair procedure, with cardiopulmonary bypass

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Right ventricular failure

    1. systolic dysfunction (TAPSE below 16 mm or S wave below 9.5 cm/s) 2. RV fractional area change below 35% 3. End-diastole diameter ratio between RV and left ventricle \> 0.6 4. Ratio between S and D wave or inverse D wave in supra-hepatic veins

    Time frame: First 24 hours post cardiac surgery

  2. Portal flow measured by Doppler

    flow pulsatility is assessed with the formula = 100 x (Vmax-Vmin)/Vmax. Time frame: First 24 hours post cardiac surgery

    Time frame: First 24 hours post cardiac surgery

Secondary outcomes

  1. Echocardiographic acquisition

    Feasability of all measurements (RV failure with the 4 criteria: 1. systolic dysfunction (TAPSE below 16 mm or S wave below 9.5 cm/s) 2. RV fractional area change below 35% 3. End-diastole diameter ratio between RV and left ventricle \> 0.6 4. Ratio between S and D wave or inverse D wave in supra-hepatic veins)

    Time frame: First 24 hours post cardiac surgery

  2. Echocardiographic acquisition

    Feasability of all measurements (RV failure with the portal flow with Doppler)

    Time frame: First 24 hours post cardiac surgery

  3. Concordance of pulsatile flow assessment

    Concordance of repeated measurements of the venous portal flow Time frame: First 24 hours post cardiac surgery

    Time frame: First 24 hours post cardiac surgery

  4. Concordance of RV dysfunction measurements

    Concordance of repeated measurements of : 1. systolic dysfunction (TAPSE below 16 mm or S wave below 9.5 cm/s) 2. RV fractional area change below 35% 3. End-diastole diameter ratio between RV and left ventricle \> 0.6 4. Ratio between S and D wave or inverse D wave in supra-hepatic veins

    Time frame: First 24 hours post cardiac surgery

  5. Preoperative RV dysfunction

    As defined 1. systolic dysfunction (TAPSE below 16 mm or S wave below 9.5 cm/s) 2. RV fractional area change below 35% 3. End-diastole diameter ratio between RV and left ventricle \> 0.6 4. Ratio between S and D wave or inverse D wave in supra-hepatic veins

    Time frame: 30 days before cardiac surgery

  6. Acute kidney injury

    defined by KDIGO criteria as creatininemia elevation above \> 26 micromol/L during the first 48 hours or +50% during the first week, oliguria with urine output less than 0.5 mL/kg/h during 6 hours.

    Time frame: one week after surgery

  7. Cholestasis

    Conjugate bilirubin elevation above 12 mmol/L

    Time frame: one week after surgery

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Study locations

1 site
  • CMC Ambroise Paré
    Neuilly-sur-Seine, 92200, France
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References and documents

Publications

  • Haddad F, Couture P, Tousignant C, Denault AY. The right ventricle in cardiac surgery, a perioperative perspective: II. Pathophysiology, clinical importance, and management. Anesth Analg. 2009 Feb;108(2):422-33. doi: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818d8b92. PubMed 19151265 ↗
  • Haddad F, Couture P, Tousignant C, Denault AY. The right ventricle in cardiac surgery, a perioperative perspective: I. Anatomy, physiology, and assessment. Anesth Analg. 2009 Feb;108(2):407-21. doi: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818f8623. PubMed 19151264 ↗
  • Denault AY, Beaubien-Souligny W, Elmi-Sarabi M, Eljaiek R, El-Hamamsy I, Lamarche Y, Chronopoulos A, Lambert J, Bouchard J, Desjardins G. Clinical Significance of Portal Hypertension Diagnosed With Bedside Ultrasound After Cardiac Surgery. Anesth Analg. 2017 Apr;124(4):1109-1115. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001812. PubMed 28151822 ↗
  • Rudski LG, Lai WW, Afilalo J, Hua L, Handschumacher MD, Chandrasekaran K, Solomon SD, Louie EK, Schiller NB. Guidelines for the echocardiographic assessment of the right heart in adults: a report from the American Society of Echocardiography endorsed by the European Association of Echocardiography, a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology, and the Canadian Society of Echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2010 Jul;23(7):685-713; quiz 786-8. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2010.05.010. No abstract available. PubMed 20620859 ↗

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 2, 2023, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04890860
Lead sponsor
CMC Ambroise Paré
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 18, 2021
Start date
Jun 15, 2021
Primary completion
Aug 11, 2022
Completion
Aug 11, 2022
Last update
Mar 2, 2023

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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