Accepted Manuscript Title: Clinical Relevance of Computed Tomography Pulmonary Venography Author: S.D. Braun I. Platzek D. Danowski K. Z¨ophel M. Weise M. Kolditz S. Katzke R.H. Strasser G. H¨offken M. Halank PII: DOI: Reference:
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Clinical
Relevance
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Venography Braun SD, MD1, Platzek I, MD2, Danowski D, MD2, Zöphel K, PD, MD3, Weise M,
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Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
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Department of Radiology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
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Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
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Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
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Dresden Heart Center, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Dresden, Germany
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The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding this
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Address for Correspondence: Dr. med. Silke Doris Braun
Technical University of Dresden University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Department of Pneumology Fetscherstr. 74
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Abstract:
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Background: In clinical routine, the pulmonary contrast-enhanced chest computer tomography (CT) is usually focussed on the pulmonary arteries. The purpose of
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this pictorial essay is to raise the clinicians’ awareness for the clinical relevance of
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CT pulmonary venography.
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Keywords: Pulmonary veins, Pulmonary circulation, CT pulmonary venography
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Introduction:
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The aim of this pictorial essay is to illustrate the clinical relevance of CT pulmonary venography. Because symptoms and signs of pulmonary venous pathologies are
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profoundly unspecific, findings in the affected patients are likely to be misleading if
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pulmonary veins are congenital partial anomalous pulmonary venous return
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Congenital partial anomalous pulmonary venous return is estimated to be prevalent in about 0.5% of the general population and increases up to 20-30% in
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patients with atrial septal defects. The relatively high prevalence is attributed to the
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complex development of the pulmonary veins arising from the primordial foregut in about the sixth week of gestation. Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return can
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stand either isolated, or be associated with other congenital heart diseases, most likely with a superior sinus venosus defect (1). The anomalous pulmonary drainage results in a systemic-to-pulmonary shunt with chronic right ventricular volume overload. Shunt magnitude depends on the pressure gradients between the systemic and pulmonary circulation and on the expanse of the anomalous drainage. Although the majority of PAPVR-patients are clinically nondescript in the early stages, some patients will develop exertional dyspnoea due to overflowinduced pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH-CHD), and some patients will even develop progressive right-heart failure. Isolated PAPVR presents a different clinical course to PAPVR with an atrial septal defect (ASD), or with a sinus venosus defect (SVD). Patients with isolated PAPVR have an isolated systemic-to-pulmonary 4
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shunt; in contrast, when pulmonary arterial pressure exceeds the systemic arterial pressure, patients with associated ASD or SVD will develop shunt-reversal with pulmonary-to-systemic shunt.
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Time of clinical manifestation is typically between 20-40 years, predominantly with exertional dyspnoea. Transthoracic echocardiography initially shows right ventricle
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early stages, but later in the course the lung vessels are reduced and the hilar
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pulmonary arteries are dilated. Right-heart-catheterisation (RHC) typically detects increased cardiac output of the right ventricle due the shunt volume.
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stepwise oxymetry significant oxygen-jumps can be detected at the PAPVR orifice into the systemic venous circulation. Yet with RHC and oxymetry precise shunt
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on the ejection fraction. Shunt detection of sub-diaphragmatic PAPVR is very difficult and often missed. Because of the high coincidence of PAPVR with ASD
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and SVD, CT pulmonary venography must be considered prior to ASD or SVD occlusion. If PAPVR is missed, continuing systemic-to-pulmonary shunt will thwart the therapeutic success of the supposed surgical/interventional shunt correction. Unfavourably
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later
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life.
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supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (pSVT) are also a typical clinical manifestation of PAPVR. This is why in young patients with pSVT a CT pulmonary venography should be contemplated before an electrophysiology study is performed. Figure 1 illustrates A) normal pulmonary venous return, B) isolated partial anomalous pulmonary venous return, and C) PAPVR in combination with an ASD in the early clinical course with left-to-right shunt – D) as well as in the late clinical course with shunt reversal and right-to-left shunt. 5
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Figure 1. A: Normal pulmonary venous return. B: Isolated anomalous pulmonary venous return with merely systemic-to-pulmonary shunt. C: Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return associated with an atrial septal defect, in the early clinical course with primarily systemic-to-pulmonary shunt. D: Shunt reversal with pulmonary-to-systemic shunt in the late clinical course.
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If diagnosis of PAPVR is missed, the images of Figure 2 (Patient 1) and Figure 3 (Patient 2) exemplify the clinical consequences of interventional ASD-closure with an occlude device and continuing left-to-right shunt. An ASD was closed in both
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patients with an Amplatzer-device many years before the patients presented with progressive dyspnoea. The continuing shunt volume resulted in progressive
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years ago. Patient 3 (Figure 4) presented with exertional dyspnoea NYHA II and moderate right heart dilation was found with transthoracic echocardiography. With RHC increased cardiac output with mild pulmonary arterial hypertension and an oxygen jump was detected. Computed tomography pulmonary venography facilated the diagnosis of PAPVR of the left upper pulmonary lobe.
Figure 5 shows variants of PAPVR and TAPVR with shunt bloodflow to illustrate the difficulty of precise shunt diagnosis with RHC and stepwise oximetry.
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A: Anterior view; on the left side, there is a large vena verticalis (**) and on the right side, there is a small accessory right lower pulmonary vein (*) draining into the inferior vena cava. B: Left anterior oblique (LAO) view disclosed PAPVR of the left upper (***) and the left lower pulmonary vein (****) via a vertical vein (**) into the left brachiocephalic vein. C: Right (*) and left (**) atrium with the occluder device (***). D: Vertical vein (white arrow) with pulmonary venous drainage of the left lung into the left brachiocephalic vein. Noteworthy, this is not a persistant left-sided vena cava (PLSVC), because PLSVC drains blood from the left brachiocephalic vein via the oblique vein (vein of Marshall) into the coronary sinus.
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A: Axial CT images show the anomalous vertical vein (white arrow) B: Drainage of the mid and upper left pulmonary veins into the vertical vein (white arrow) C: The volume rendering (VRT) image shows veins from the left upper lobe that are draining into the left brachiocephalic vein. The white arrow highlights a left vertical vein which is draining blood from the left lung into the brachiocephalic vein.
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Pulmonary venous stenosis (PVS) is another relatively common pathology of the pulmonary veins. The precise prevalence of pulmonary venous stenosis is unknown as there are many acquired and congenital causes for PVS (2). Factors
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Typical symptoms and signs of pulmonary venous stenosis are shortness of breath, chronic cough, recurrent haemoptysis, pulmonary oedema, recurrent pleural effusions and pulmonary venous hypertension (3-7). Common radiological findings are thickened interseptal lines, ground-glass opacity, enlarged hilar lymph nodes and pleural effusions. As a result of regional differences in pulmonary vascular resistance, the pulmonary blood flow redirects towards regions with lower vascular resistance (8-9). Therefore, perfusion deficits in lung perfusion scans can be caused both by pulmonary arterial and by pulmonary venous obstruction (10). Differentiation between pulmonary arterial and pulmonary venous origine of 12
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perfusion deficits is not possible (11,12). This is why CT pulmonary venography should be considered in the differential diagnosis of scintigraphic pulmonary
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A: Broadened interlobular septal lines (***) and mild pleural effusion (**) B: Posterior view; absent right pulmonary veins (*). PAPVR left upper lobe into the superior vena cava (**) and pulmonary veins mainly from the left lower lobe (***) C: Calcified surgical graft (white arrow) D: Perfusion scintigraphy (posterior view) disclosed almost absent perfusion of the right lung (****) in combination with a perfusion deficit of the left upper lobe. Perfusion mainly of the left lower lobe.
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These images demonstrate that CT pulmonary venography must be considered before interventional and surgical ASD closure. Computed tomography pulmonary
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either considerably less sensitive or are not useful for visualising the subsequent parenchymal pathologies in the affected lungs (16). Today, computed tomography angiography (CTA) is the method of choice for imaging of the pulmonary vessels.
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