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Cardiol Young ; 29(11): 1391-1396, 2019 Nov.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31554530

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: The resection of a subaortic membrane remains far from a curative operation. We sought to examine factors associated with reoperation and the degree of aortic valve regurgitation as a potential long-term source for reoperation. METHODS: All patients who underwent resection of an isolated subaortic membrane between 1995 and 2018 were included. Patients who underwent other procedures were excluded. Paired categorical data were compared using McNemar's test. Univariate time-to-event analyses were performed using Kaplan-Meier methods with log-rank tests for categorical variables and univariate Cox models for continuous variables. RESULTS: A total of 84 patients (median age 6.6, 31% females) underwent resection of isolated subaortic membrane. At a median follow-up of 9.3 years (interquartile range 0.6-22.5), 12 (14%) patients required one reoperation and 1 patient required two reoperations. Median time to first reoperation was 4.6 years. The degree of aortic valve regurgitation improved post-operatively from pre-operatively (p = 0.0007); however, the degree of aortic valve regurgitation worsened over the course of follow-up (p = 0.010) to equivalence with pre-operative aortic valve regurgitation (p = 0.18). Performance of a septal myectomy was associated with longer freedom from reoperation (p = 0.004). CONCLUSIONS: In patients with isolated subaortic membranes, performance of a septal myectomy can minimise risk for reoperation. Patients should be serially monitored for degradation of the aortic valve, even if aortic regurgitation is not present post-operatively.


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Insuficiência da Valva Aórtica/cirurgia , Valva Aórtica/cirurgia , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Cardíacos/métodos , Estenose Subaórtica Fixa/cirurgia , Cardiopatias Congênitas/cirurgia , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/cirurgia , Reoperação/métodos , Valva Aórtica/diagnóstico por imagem , Insuficiência da Valva Aórtica/diagnóstico , Insuficiência da Valva Aórtica/etiologia , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Estenose Subaórtica Fixa/diagnóstico , Ecocardiografia , Feminino , Seguimentos , Cardiopatias Congênitas/diagnóstico , Humanos , Lactente , Masculino , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/diagnóstico , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/etiologia , Estudos Retrospectivos , Fatores de Risco , Fatores de Tempo
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Biophys J ; 112(7): 1431-1443, 2017 Apr 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28402885

RESUMO

To better understand animal cell plasma membranes, we studied simplified models, namely four-component lipid bilayer mixtures. Here we describe the domain size transition in the region of coexisting liquid-disordered (Ld) + liquid-ordered (Lo) phases. This transition occurs abruptly in composition space with domains increasing in size by two orders of magnitude, from tens of nanometers to microns. We measured the line tension between coexisting Ld and Lo domains close to the domain size transition for a variety of lipid mixtures, finding that in every case the transition occurs at a line tension of ∼0.3 pN. A computational model incorporating line tension and dipole repulsion indicated that even small changes in line tension can result in domains growing in size by several orders of magnitude, consistent with experimental observations. We find that other properties of the coexisting Ld and Lo phases do not change significantly in the vicinity of the abrupt domain size transition.


Assuntos
Fenômenos Biofísicos , Bicamadas Lipídicas/química , Transição de Fase , Espectroscopia de Ressonância de Spin Eletrônica , Simulação de Dinâmica Molecular , Difração de Nêutrons , Espalhamento a Baixo Ângulo
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Sci Rep ; 12(1): 11416, 2022 07 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35794145

RESUMO

Direct cell reprogramming represents a promising new myocardial regeneration strategy involving in situ transdifferentiation of cardiac fibroblasts into induced cardiomyocytes. Adult human cells are relatively resistant to reprogramming, however, likely because of epigenetic restraints on reprogramming gene activation. We hypothesized that modulation of the epigenetic regulator gene p63 could improve the efficiency of human cell cardio-differentiation. qRT-PCR analysis demonstrated significantly increased expression of a panel of cardiomyocyte marker genes in neonatal rat and adult rat and human cardiac fibroblasts treated with p63 shRNA (shp63) and the cardio-differentiation factors Hand2/Myocardin (H/M) versus treatment with Gata4, Mef2c and Tbx5 (GMT) with or without shp63 (p < 0.001). FACS analysis demonstrated that shp63+ H/M treatment of human cardiac fibroblasts significantly increased the percentage of cells expressing the cardiomyocyte marker cTnT compared to GMT treatment with or without shp63 (14.8% ± 1.4% versus 4.3% ± 1.1% and 3.1% ± 0.98%, respectively; p < 0.001). We further demonstrated that overexpression of the p63-transactivation inhibitory domain (TID) interferes with the physical interaction of p63 with the epigenetic regulator HDAC1 and that human cardiac fibroblasts treated with p63-TID+ H/M demonstrate increased cardiomyocyte marker gene expression compared to cells treated with shp63+ H/M (p < 0.05). Whereas human cardiac fibroblasts treated with GMT alone failed to contract in co-culture experiments, human cardiac fibroblasts treated with shp63+ HM or p63-TID+ H/M demonstrated calcium transients upon electrical stimulation and contractility synchronous with surrounding neonatal cardiomyocytes. These findings demonstrate that p63 silencing provides enhanced rat and human cardiac fibroblast transdifferentiation into induced cardiomyocytes compared to a standard reprogramming strategy. p63-TID overexpression may be a useful reprogramming strategy for overcoming epigenetic barriers to human fibroblast cardio-differentiation.


Assuntos
Miócitos Cardíacos , Proteínas com Domínio T , Animais , Reprogramação Celular , Epigênese Genética , Fibroblastos/metabolismo , Humanos , Proteínas de Membrana/genética , Miócitos Cardíacos/metabolismo , RNA Interferente Pequeno/administração & dosagem , RNA Interferente Pequeno/genética , Ratos , Proteínas com Domínio T/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo
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