Cardiac sympathetic innervation and mortality risk scores in patients with heart failure

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INTRODUCTION: In the risk stratification and selection of patients with heart failure (HF) eligible for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy, 123 I-meta-IodineBenzylGuanidine (123 I-mIBG) scintigraphy has emerged as an effective non-invasive method to assess cardiac adrenergic innervation. Similarly, clinical risk scores have been proposed to identify patients with HF at risk of all-cause mortality, for whom the net clinical benefit of device implantation would presumably be lower. Nevertheless, the association between the two classes of tools, one suggestive of arrhythmic risk, the other of all-cause mortality, needs further investigation.

OBJECTIVE: To test the relationship between the risk scores for predicting mortality and cardiac sympathetic innervation, assessed through myocardial 123 I-mIBG imaging, in a population of patients with HF.

METHODS: In HF patients undergoing 123 I-mIBG scintigraphy, eight risk stratification models were assessed: AAACC, FADES, MADIT, MADIT-ICD non-arrhythmic mortality score, PACE, Parkash, SHOCKED and Sjoblom. Cardiac adrenergic impairment was assessed by late heart-to-mediastinum ratio (H/M) <1.6.

RESULTS: Among 269 patients suffering from HF, late H/M showed significant negative correlation with all the predicting models, although generally weak, ranging from -0.15 (p = .013) for PACE to -0.32 (p < .001) for FADES. The scores showed poor discrimination for cardiac innervation, with areas under the curve (AUC) ranging from 0.546 for Parkash to 0.621 for FADES.

CONCLUSION: A weak association emerged among mortality risk scores and cardiac innervation, suggesting to integrate in clinical practice tools indicative of both arrhythmic and general mortality risks, when evaluating patients affected by HF eligible for device implantation.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:53

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European journal of clinical investigation - 53(2023), 3 vom: 01. März, Seite e13948

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bencivenga, Leonardo [VerfasserIn]
Komici, Klara [VerfasserIn]
Paolillo, Stefania [VerfasserIn]
Nappi, Carmela [VerfasserIn]
Gargiulo, Paola [VerfasserIn]
Assante, Roberta [VerfasserIn]
Gambino, Giuseppina [VerfasserIn]
Santillo, Fabio [VerfasserIn]
Femminella, Grazia Daniela [VerfasserIn]
Corbi, Grazia Maria [VerfasserIn]
Ferrara, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Cuocolo, Alberto [VerfasserIn]
Perrone-Filardi, Pasquale [VerfasserIn]
Rengo, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

123I-mIBG scintigraphy
3-Iodobenzylguanidine
35MRW7B4AD
Adrenergic Agents
Cardiac adrenergic innervation
Heart failure
Journal Article
Mortality risk scores
Radiopharmaceuticals

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Date Completed 14.02.2023

Date Revised 14.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/eci.13948

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NLM35087770X