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American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 171, 371-374, Copyright © 1998 by American Roentgen Ray Society

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Significance of radiographic cardiomegaly in orthotopic heart transplant recipients

JD Murphy, PJ Mergo, HM Taylor, R Fields and RM Mills Jr
Department of Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610-0374, USA.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical significance of radiographic cardiomegaly in orthotopic heart transplant recipients and to identify causative anatomic and physiologic parameters. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively compared the cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) measured using standard posteroanterior chest radiography with left ventricular end-diastolic diameter and left ventricular ejection fraction measured on two- dimensional echocardiography; right ventricular systolic pressure; and systolic, diastolic, and mean blood pressure measured at biopsy in 46 heart transplant recipients. RESULTS: Twenty-eight (61%) of the 46 patients had radiographic cardiomegaly. When we compared heart transplant recipients who had a CTR greater than 0.5 with recipients who had a CTR less than or equal to 0.5, we found no significant difference between their respective left ventricular end-diastolic diameters, left ventricular ejection fractions, right ventricular systolic pressures, systolic blood pressures, or mean blood pressures. A statistically significant difference existed between the mean values of diastolic blood pressure for transplant recipients with and without radiographic cardiomegaly. We found no significant correlation between CTR and left ventricular end-diastolic diameter, left ventricular ejection fraction, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, or mean blood pressure. CONCLUSION: The statistically significant difference between the mean values of diastolic blood pressure of transplant recipients with and without radiographic cardiomegaly is clinically insignificant and unlikely to account for the finding of radiographic cardiomegaly. We conclude that radiographic cardiomegaly, which occurs frequently in heart transplant recipients, does not correlate with anatomic or physiologic parameters obtained under the same conditions. Radiographic cardiomegaly in heart transplant recipients does not connote allograft dysfunction or heart failure.
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