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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
卷 114, 期 7, 页码 1059-1064出版社
EXCERPTA MEDICA INC-ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2014.07.022
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- American Heart Association
- Novartis
- Thoratec
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Janssen
- Johnson and Johnson
There are limited data integrating findings on right-sided cardiac catheterization and cardiopulmonary exercise testing in ambulatory patients with heart failure. In this study, 187 outpatients with HF referred to the Duke Medical Center for consideration of advanced HF therapies were retrospectively evaluated. All patients had undergone right-sided cardiac catheterization and cardiopulmonary exercise testing; the median cardiac index (CI) was 2.0 L/min/m(2) (interquartile range 1.7 to 2.3), and the median peak oxygen consumption was 11.3 ml/kg/min (interquartile range 9.2 to 13.8). Despite aggressive medical therapy, medical management had failed in 97 patients (52%) at 18 months, defined as left ventricular assist device implantation, cardiac transplantation, or death. After multivariate adjustment, factors associated with failure of optimal medical management included percentage achieved of predicted peak oxygen consumption, low CI (i.e., <2 L/min/m(2)), left ventricular size, and exercise time. Patients with discordant findings on right-sided cardiac catheterization and cardiopulmonary exercise testing were common, occurring in 88 patients (47%). The most common profile was preserved CI but reduced functional capacity, and these patients remained at high risk for requiring advanced therapies, whereas patients with reduced CIs but preserved exercise capacity were uncommon. In conclusion, low CI was independently associated with higher rates of death, transplantation, and left ventricular assist device implantation in this study. Also, patients with preserved CIs at rest but poor functional capacity, so-called cardiac insufficiency, were commonly encountered and had poor outcomes with medical management. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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