Effects of heart transplantation on cerebral metabolic abnormalities in patients with congestive heart failure

Cheol Whan Lee; Jung Hee Lee; Hyun Suk Yang; Keun Ho Lim; Jung-Min Ahn; Myeong-Ki Hong; Seong-Wook Park; Seung-Jung Park; Myeong-Geun Song; Jae-Joong Kim

doi:10.1016/j.healun.2005.09.012

Effects of heart transplantation on cerebral metabolic abnormalities in patients with congestive heart failure

J Heart Lung Transplant. 2006 Mar;25(3):353-5. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2005.09.012. Epub 2005 Dec 9.

Authors

Cheol Whan Lee¹, Jung Hee Lee, Hyun Suk Yang, Keun Ho Lim, Jung-Min Ahn, Myeong-Ki Hong, Seong-Wook Park, Seung-Jung Park, Myeong-Geun Song, Jae-Joong Kim

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea.

PMID: 16507431
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2005.09.012

Abstract

We investigated the serial changes in cerebral metabolites in 34 patients with congestive heart failure before and 2 and 12 months after heart transplantation, using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Regional differences were detected in the recovery of cerebral metabolites after the heart transplantation procedure.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Aspartic Acid / analogs & derivatives
Aspartic Acid / metabolism
Brain / metabolism*
Choline / metabolism
Creatine / metabolism
Female
Heart Failure / metabolism
Heart Failure / surgery*
Heart Transplantation / physiology*
Humans
Inositol / metabolism
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Male
Middle Aged
Occipital Lobe / metabolism
Parietal Lobe / metabolism

Substances

Aspartic Acid
Inositol
N-acetylaspartate
Creatine
Choline