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Transvenous Hemodynamic Assessment of Experimental Arteriovenous Malformations

Doppler Guidewire Monitoring of Embolotherapy in a Swine Model

Yuichi Murayama, MD; Tarik F. Massoud, MD Fernando Vinuela, MD

the Endovascular Therapy Service and Leo G. Rigler Radiological Research Center, University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center.

Background and Purpose A Doppler guidewire was used to monitor progressive changes in draining vein flow parameters during experimental embolotherapy in a swine arteriovenous malformation (AVM) model.

Methods A microcatheter was positioned superselectively in the main arterial feeder and main draining vein in each of 10 AVM models in swine. With use of the Doppler guidewire, preembolization arterial and venous average peak velocities (APVs) and pulsatility indices were recorded. The device was left in the draining vein during transarterial particulate (in 8 swine) or liquid adhesive (in 2 swine) embolization, and continuous transvenous flow during and after treatment was monitored. Periembolization Doppler flow parameters were correlated qualitatively with angiographic changes in the nidus.

Results Preembolization draining vein flow was pulsatile, with a mean APV of 38.9±13.7 cm/s. After embolization, this changed significantly to a less pulsatile or nonpulsatile pattern, with a lower mean APV of 9.2±4.9 cm/s (P=.0001). A novel expression, the maximum minus the minimum peak velocity (MxPV-MnPV), was used in evaluating the transvenous Doppler spectra. This was reduced significantly after embolization from a mean of 11.1±3.5 cm/s to 6.7±2.5 cm/s (P=.0025). Objective periembolization hemodynamic changes were detected in the draining veins earlier than the visually subjective angiographic changes within the nidus.

Conclusions Transvenous Doppler guidewire assessment of two parameters, APV and MxPV-MnPV, is useful in the hemodynamic evaluation of experimental arteriovenous shunting and may be used for future objective and quantitative monitoring during endovascular AVM embolotherapy.

Key Words: animal models • cerebral arteriovenous malformations • embolization, therapeutic • hemodynamics • ultrasonics

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