Abstract
AIMS: This study investigated the relationship between right ventricular (RV) structure and function and survival in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH).
METHODS AND RESULTS: In 64 patients, cardiac magnetic resonance, right heart catheterization, and the six-minute walk test (6MWT) were performed at baseline and after 1-year follow-up. RV structure and function were analysed as predictors of mortality. During a mean follow-up of 32 months, 19 patients died. A low stroke volume (SV), RV dilatation, and impaired left ventricular (LV) filling independently predicted mortality. In addition, a further decrease in SV, progressive RV dilatation, and further decrease in LV end-diastolic volume (LVEDV) at 1-year follow-up were the strongest predictors of mortality. According to Kaplan-Meier survival curves, survival was lower in patients with an inframedian SV index <or= 25 mL/m(2), a supramedian RV end-diastolic volume index >or= 84 mL/m(2), and an inframedian LVEDV<or=40 mL/m(2).
CONCLUSIONS: The RV contains prognostic information in IPAH. A large RV volume, low SV, and a reduced LV volume are strong independent predictors of mortality and treatment failure.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1250-7 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | European Heart journal |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2007 |
Keywords
- Adult
- Cardiac Catheterization
- Exercise Test
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Heart Ventricles/physiopathology
- Humans
- Hypertension, Pulmonary/diagnosis
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine
- Male
- Prognosis
- Pulmonary Artery/physiopathology
- Risk Factors
- Stroke Volume
- Survival Analysis
- Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/diagnosis
- Ventricular Dysfunction, Right/diagnosis