Prognostic value of Doppler transmitral filling patterns in patients with chronic heart failure / 中华医学杂志(英文版)
Chinese Medical Journal
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(24): 176-182, 2004.
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ABSTRACT
<p><b>BACKGROUND</b>Chronic heart failure is a significant cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. This study tested the hypothesis that restrictive filling pattern may provide useful prognostic data for identifying patients with chronic heart failure at high risk of all-cause cardiac death.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Ninety patients with chronic heart failure [70 men and 20 women, mean age (58.1 +/- 11.6) years] were investigated and followed for (18.8 +/- 7.9) months. During this period, 14 patients died of progressive pump failure, 12 patients underwent heart transplantation, 5 patients died suddenly, and 2 patients died of acute myocardial infarction. A new criterion, the restrictive filling index (RFI), was designed to subgroup patients into a restrictive and a nonrestrictive group.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Patients with restrictive filling pattern had a more severe left ventricular dysfunction and a higher cardiac mortality. Analysis by the Kaplan-Meier method revealed that patients in the RFI > or = 1 and RFI < 1 groups had a cardiac events-free survival rate of 52% versus 94% at 1 year, and 27.5% versus 92% at 2 years, respectively. The multivariate Cox proportional hazard model selected RFI as the most powerful prognostic factor (chi(2) = 8.8017, P = 0.0030) for all-cause cardiac death.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>These results indicate that RFI is a simple, noninvasive, and specific clinical predictor for adult chronic heart failure patients who are at a high risk for all-cause cardiac death.</p>
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Assunto principal:
Prognóstico
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Diagnóstico por Imagem
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Ecocardiografia Doppler
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Doença Crônica
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Mortalidade
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Disfunção Ventricular Esquerda
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Insuficiência Cardíaca
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo diagnóstico
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Estudo prognóstico
Limite:
Humanos
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Masculino
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Chinese Medical Journal
Ano de publicação:
2004
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