Martin St John Sutton1, Cecilia Linde2, Michael R Gold3, William T Abraham4, Stefano Ghio5, Jeffrey Cerkvenik6, Jean-Claude Daubert7. 1. Cardiovascular Medicine Division, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: suttonm@mail.med.upenn.edu. 2. Department of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. 3. Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. 4. Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 5. Department of Cardiology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy. 6. Medtronic plc, Mounds View, Minnesota. 7. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Rennes, France.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine the effects of abnormal left ventricular (LV) architecture on cardiac remodeling and clinical outcomes in mild heart failure (HF). BACKGROUND:Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established treatment for HF that improves survival in part by favorably remodeling LV architecture. LV shape is a dynamic component of LV architecture on which contractile function depends. METHODS:Transthoracic 2-dimensional echocardiography was used to quantify changes in LV architecture over 5 years of follow-up of patients with mild HF from the REVERSE study. REVERSE was a prospective study of patients with large hearts (LV end-diastolic dimension ≥55 mm), LV ejection fraction <40%, and QRS duration >120 ms randomly assigned to CRT-ON (n = 419) and CRT-OFF (n = 191). CRT-OFF patients were excluded from this analysis. LV dimensions, volumes, mass index, and LV ejection fraction were calculated. LV architecture was assessed using the sphericity index, as follows: (LV end-diastolic volume)/(4/3 × π × r3) × 100%. RESULTS:LV architecture improved over time and demonstrated significant associations between LV shape, age, sex, and echocardiography metrics. Changes in LV architecture were strongly correlated with changes in LV end-systolic volume index and LV end-diastolic volume index (both p < 0.0001). Sphericity index emerged as a predictor of death and HF hospitalization in spite of the low adverse event rate. A decrease in LV end-systolic volume index >15% occurred in more than two-thirds of patients, which indicates considerable reverse remodeling. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrated that change in LV architecture in patients with mild HF with CRT is associated with structural and functional remodeling. Mean LV filling pressure was elevated, and the inability to lower it was an additional predictor of HF hospitalization or death. (Resynchronization Reverses Remodeling in Systolic Left Ventricular Dysfunction [REVERSE]; NCT00271154).
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OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine the effects of abnormal left ventricular (LV) architecture on cardiac remodeling and clinical outcomes in mild heart failure (HF). BACKGROUND: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established treatment for HF that improves survival in part by favorably remodeling LV architecture. LV shape is a dynamic component of LV architecture on which contractile function depends. METHODS: Transthoracic 2-dimensional echocardiography was used to quantify changes in LV architecture over 5 years of follow-up of patients with mild HF from the REVERSE study. REVERSE was a prospective study of patients with large hearts (LV end-diastolic dimension ≥55 mm), LV ejection fraction <40%, and QRS duration >120 ms randomly assigned to CRT-ON (n = 419) and CRT-OFF (n = 191). CRT-OFF patients were excluded from this analysis. LV dimensions, volumes, mass index, and LV ejection fraction were calculated. LV architecture was assessed using the sphericity index, as follows: (LV end-diastolic volume)/(4/3 × π × r3) × 100%. RESULTS: LV architecture improved over time and demonstrated significant associations between LV shape, age, sex, and echocardiography metrics. Changes in LV architecture were strongly correlated with changes in LV end-systolic volume index and LV end-diastolic volume index (both p < 0.0001). Sphericity index emerged as a predictor of death and HF hospitalization in spite of the low adverse event rate. A decrease in LV end-systolic volume index >15% occurred in more than two-thirds of patients, which indicates considerable reverse remodeling. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrated that change in LV architecture in patients with mild HF with CRT is associated with structural and functional remodeling. Mean LV filling pressure was elevated, and the inability to lower it was an additional predictor of HF hospitalization or death. (Resynchronization Reverses Remodeling in Systolic Left Ventricular Dysfunction [REVERSE]; NCT00271154).
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