Additional prognostic value of echocardiographic follow-up in pulmonary hypertension-role of 3D right ventricular area strain

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AIMS: Outcomes in pulmonary hypertension (PH) are related to right ventricular (RV) function and remodelling. We hypothesized that changes in RV function and especially area strain (AS) could provide incremental prognostic information compared to the use of baseline data only. We therefore aimed to assess RV function changes between baseline and 6-month follow-up and evaluate their prognostic value for PH patients using 3D echocardiography.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Ninety-five PH patients underwent a prospective longitudinal study including ESC/ERS guidelines prognostic assessment and 3D RV echocardiographic imaging at baseline and 6-month follow-up. Semi-automatic software tracked the RV along the cycle, and its output was post-processed to extract 3D deformation patterns. Over a median follow-up of 24.8 (22.1-25.7) months, 21 patients died from PH or were transplanted. Improvements in RV global AS were associated with stable or improving clinical condition as well as survival free from transplant (P < 0.001). The 3D deformation patterns confirmed that the most significant regional changes occurred within the septum. RV global AS change over 6-month by +3.5% identifies patients with a 3.7-fold increased risk of death or transplant. On multivariate COX analysis, changes in WHO class, BNP, and RV global AS were independent predictors of outcomes. Besides, the combination of these three parameters was of special interest to identify high-risk patients [HR 11.5 (1.55-86.06)].

CONCLUSION: Changes in RV function and especially changes in 3D RV AS are of prognostic importance. Our study underlines that assessing such changes from baseline to follow-up is of additional prognostic value for PH patients.

CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02799979.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

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European heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging - 23(2022), 11 vom: 20. Okt., Seite 1562-1572

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Moceri, Pamela [VerfasserIn]
Duchateau, Nicolas [VerfasserIn]
Baudouy, Delphine [VerfasserIn]
Squara, Fabien [VerfasserIn]
Bun, Sok Sithikun [VerfasserIn]
Ferrari, Emile [VerfasserIn]
Sermesant, Maxime [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3d echocardiography
Clinical Study
Journal Article
Myocardial deformation imaging
Pulmonary hypertension
Right ventricular function

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Date Completed 26.10.2022

Date Revised 15.11.2022

published: Print

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02799979

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/ehjci/jeab240

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM347798365