ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between right atrial volume index (RAVI) and right ventricular (RV) systolic and diastolic function, as well as long-term prognosis in patients with chronic systolic heart failure (HF). BACKGROUND: RV dysfunction is associated with poor prognosis in patients with HF, although echocardiographic assessment of RV systolic and diastolic dysfunction is challenging. The ability to visualize the RA allows a quantitative, highly reproducible assessment of the RA volume that can be indexed to body surface area. METHODS: The ADEPT (Assessment of Doppler Echocardiography for Prognosis and Therapy) trial enrolled 192 subjects with chronic systolic HF (left ventricular ejection fraction [LVEF] Subject(s)
Echocardiography, Doppler
, Heart Atria/diagnostic imaging
, Heart Failure, Systolic/diagnostic imaging
, Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/diagnostic imaging
, Ventricular Dysfunction, Right/diagnostic imaging
, Adult
, Aged
, Body Surface Area
, Chronic Disease
, Cohort Studies
, Female
, Heart Failure, Systolic/complications
, Heart Failure, Systolic/mortality
, Heart Failure, Systolic/physiopathology
, Heart Transplantation
, Hospitalization
, Humans
, Kaplan-Meier Estimate
, Male
, Middle Aged
, Predictive Value of Tests
, Prognosis
, Proportional Hazards Models
, Reproducibility of Results
, Risk Assessment
, Severity of Illness Index
, Time Factors
, Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/etiology
, Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/mortality
, Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/physiopathology
, Ventricular Dysfunction, Right/etiology
, Ventricular Dysfunction, Right/mortality
, Ventricular Dysfunction, Right/physiopathology
