Emmanouil Tampakakis1, Sanjiv J Shah1, Barry A Borlaug1, Peter J Leary1, Harnish H Patel1, Wayne L Miller1, Benjamin W Kelemen1, Brian A Houston1, Todd M Kolb1, Rachel Damico1, Stephen C Mathai1, Edward K Kasper1, Paul M Hassoun1, David A Kass1, Ryan J Tedford2. 1. Division of Cardiology (E.T., B.W.K., E.K.K., D.A.K., R.J.T.) and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (T.M.K., R.D., S.C.M., P.M.H.), Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (S.J.S., H.H.P.). Division of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (B.A.B., W.L.M.). Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle (P.J.L.). Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (B.A.H., R.J.T.). 2. Division of Cardiology (E.T., B.W.K., E.K.K., D.A.K., R.J.T.) and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (T.M.K., R.D., S.C.M., P.M.H.), Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (S.J.S., H.H.P.). Division of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (B.A.B., W.L.M.). Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle (P.J.L.). Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (B.A.H., R.J.T.). tedfordr@musc.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Patients with combined post- and precapillary pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease have a worse prognosis compared with isolated postcapillary. However, it remains unclear whether increased mortality in combined post- and precapillary pulmonary hypertension is simply a result of higher total right ventricular load. Pulmonary effective arterial elastance (Ea) is a measure of total right ventricular afterload, reflecting both resistive and pulsatile components. We aimed to test whether pulmonary Ea discriminates survivors from nonsurvivors in patients with pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease and if it does so better than other hemodynamic parameters associated with combined post- and precapillary pulmonary hypertension. METHODS AND RESULTS: We combined 3 large heart failure patient cohorts (n=1036) from academic hospitals, including patients with pulmonary hypertension due to heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (n=232), reduced ejection fraction (n=335), and a mixed population (n=469). In unadjusted and 2 adjusted models, pulmonary Ea more robustly predicted mortality than pulmonary vascular resistance and the transpulmonary gradient. Along with pulmonary arterial compliance, pulmonary Ea remained predictive of survival in patients with normal pulmonary vascular resistance. The diastolic pulmonary gradient did not predict mortality. In addition, in a subset of patients with echocardiographic data, Ea and pulmonary arterial compliance were better discriminators of right ventricular dysfunction than the other parameters. CONCLUSIONS: Pulmonary Ea and pulmonary arterial compliance more consistently predicted mortality than pulmonary vascular resistance or transpulmonary gradient across a spectrum of left heart disease with pulmonary hypertension, including patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, and pulmonary hypertension with a normal pulmonary vascular resistance.
BACKGROUND: Patients with combined post- and precapillary pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease have a worse prognosis compared with isolated postcapillary. However, it remains unclear whether increased mortality in combined post- and precapillary pulmonary hypertension is simply a result of higher total right ventricular load. Pulmonary effective arterial elastance (Ea) is a measure of total right ventricular afterload, reflecting both resistive and pulsatile components. We aimed to test whether pulmonary Ea discriminates survivors from nonsurvivors in patients with pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease and if it does so better than other hemodynamic parameters associated with combined post- and precapillary pulmonary hypertension. METHODS AND RESULTS: We combined 3 large heart failure patient cohorts (n=1036) from academic hospitals, including patients with pulmonary hypertension due to heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (n=232), reduced ejection fraction (n=335), and a mixed population (n=469). In unadjusted and 2 adjusted models, pulmonary Ea more robustly predicted mortality than pulmonary vascular resistance and the transpulmonary gradient. Along with pulmonary arterial compliance, pulmonary Ea remained predictive of survival in patients with normal pulmonary vascular resistance. The diastolic pulmonary gradient did not predict mortality. In addition, in a subset of patients with echocardiographic data, Ea and pulmonary arterial compliance were better discriminators of right ventricular dysfunction than the other parameters. CONCLUSIONS: Pulmonary Ea and pulmonary arterial compliance more consistently predicted mortality than pulmonary vascular resistance or transpulmonary gradient across a spectrum of left heart disease with pulmonary hypertension, including patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, and pulmonary hypertension with a normal pulmonary vascular resistance.
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