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CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND
Volume 17, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12947-019-0157-z
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Stress echocardiography; Heart failure; Left ventricular remodeling
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BackgroundThe contractile response of patients with heart failure (HF) may be assessed by exercise stress echocardiography (ESE)-derived indexes. We sought to test whether ESE parameters are useful to identify the risk of adverse left ventricular (LV) remodeling in patients with chronic HF and reduced or mildly reduced LV ejection fraction (EF).MethodsWe enrolled 155 stabilized patients (age: 6211years, 17% female, coronary artery disease 47%) with chronic HF, LV EF 50% and LV end-diastolic volume index >75ml/m(2). All patients underwent a symptom-limited graded bicycle semi-supine ESE, with evaluation of peak stress LV EF, end-systolic pressure-volume relation (ESPVR, i.e. LV elastance) and cardiac power output to LV mass (CPOM). A complete echocardiographic study was performed at baseline and after 63months. Adverse LV remodeling was defined as the association of eccentric LV hypertrophy (LV mass: 115g/m(2) for male and95g/m(2) for women, and relative wall thickness<0.32) with an increase in LV end-systolic volume index 10% at six months.Results p id=Par3 Adverse LV remodeling was detected in 34 (22%) patients. After adjustment for clinical, biochemical and echocardiographic data, peak ESPVR resulted in the most powerful independent predictor of adverse LV remodeling (OR: 12.5 [95% CI 4.5-33]; p<0.0001) followed by ischemic aetiology (OR: 2.64 [95% 1.04-6.73]; p=0.04).ConclusionIn patients with HF and reduced or mildly reduced EF, a compromised ESE-derived peak ESPVR, that reflects impaired LV contractility, resulted to be the most powerful predictor of adverse LV remodeling.
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