Journal
CLINICAL KIDNEY JOURNAL
Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages 1579-1585Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ckj/sfaa161
Keywords
cardiovascular; dialysis; echocardiography; ESRD; prognosis
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- Dutch Kidney Foundation [16OKG12]
- [SFB TRR219]
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In ESRD patients, global longitudinal strain (GLS) assessed by speckle-tracking echocardiography is a more accurate predictor of cardiovascular mortality compared to conventional echocardiography-derived left ventricular ejection fraction (EF).
Background. Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of death in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). To develop better means to assess cardiovascular risk in these patients, we compared conventional echocardiography-derived left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) with the novel method of 2D speckle-tracking echocardiography to determine cardiac strain. Methods. Predictive performances of conventional EF and speckle-tracking echocardiography-derived global longitudinal strain (GLS) were compared using receiver-operator curve (ROC) analyses and calibration by calibration plots. We also took into account other known cardiovascular risk factors through multivariable logistic regression analysis. Results. The study comprised 171 ESRD patients (mean age 64 years, 64% male) on maintenance dialysis therapy (93% haemodialysis, 7% peritoneal dialysis) for an average period of 39 months. During 2.1 years of follow-up, 42 patients (25%) died from cardiovascular disease. ROC analysis of GLS resulted in an area under the curve of 0.700 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.603-0.797] compared with an area under the curve of EF of 0.615 (95% CI 0.514-0.716) (P = 0.059 for difference). The total absolute deviation between predicted and observed outcome frequencies obtained by calibration plots were 13.8% for EF compared with only 6.4% for GLS. Best results of ROC analysis (area under the curve = 0.759; P = 0.06), calibration and goodness-of-fit (chi(2) = 28.34, P <= 0.0001, R-2 = 0.25) were achieved for GLS added to a baseline model consisting of known cardiovascular risk factors in a multivariate regression analysis. Conclusions. In summary, in chronic dialysis patients, GLS is a more precise predictor of cardiovascular mortality than conventional echocardiography-derived EF.
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