Acute heart failure with altered ejection fraction : Electrocardiographic signs with mortality at the Abidjan cardiology institute

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INTRODUCTION: Heart failure with impaired ejection fraction (HFIEF) represents the end-stage of most cardiac diseases, and is responsible for a high mortality rate. In order to identify patients at risk, numerous clinical and paraclinical prognostic factors have been proposed. The electrocardiogram (ECG), easy to perform and inexpensive, retains a powerful role in the prognostic evaluation of heart failure patients. The aim was to evaluate ECG signs associated with mortality in a retrospective cohort of patients with ICFEA.

METHODOLOGY: The study was observational and analytical based on retrospective data collected from patients benefiting from a primary hospitalization for ICFEA at the Abidjan Heart Institute from January 2018 to July 2020.

RESULTS: Of the 370 patients included, 197 had died by August 1, 2020, representing an overall mortality of 53%. Mortality progressed gradually up to one year, then remained unchanged up to 30 months. In multivariate Cox regression including ECG variables only, the presence of intra-ventricular conduction disorders (OR: 1.80; 95% CI [1.01-3.25]), microvoltage (OR: 1.82; 95% CI [1.05-16]), and pathological Q waves (OR: 1.70; 95% CI [1.02-2.83]), were significantly associated with overall mortality. When ECG variables and clinical, paraclinical and therapeutic demographic variables were included, only the presence of pathological Q waves (OR:1.74; 95% CI [1.01-3.01]) persisted as a risk factor for mortality. Hypertension and treatment of heart failure, in particular ACEI/ARII, beta-blockers and ARM, were protective factors. The presence of Q waves was associated with a significant reduction in survival, based on curves obtained using the Kaplan-Meier model.

CONCLUSION: ICFEA is responsible for high mortality, mainly in the year following the 1st hospitalization for cardiac decompensation. The presence of pathological Q waves is the only electrocardiographic sign that remains statistically associated with a poor prognosis, after adjustment.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:73

Enthalten in:

Annales de cardiologie et d'angeiologie - 73(2024), 1 vom: 01. Feb., Seite 101628

Sprache:

Französisch

Weiterer Titel:

Insuffisance cardiaque aiguë à fraction d’éjection altérée : signes électrocardiographiques associés à la mortalité à l'institut de cardiologie d'Abidjan

Beteiligte Personen:

Coulibaly, I [VerfasserIn]
N'Djessan, J J [VerfasserIn]
Adoubi, A [VerfasserIn]
Yao, H [VerfasserIn]
Gbetchedji, S [VerfasserIn]
Soya, E [VerfasserIn]
Ncho-Mottoh, M P [VerfasserIn]
Angoran, I [VerfasserIn]
Kouamé, S [VerfasserIn]
Tro, G [VerfasserIn]
Touré, C [VerfasserIn]
Anzouan-Kacou, J B [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acute heart failure
Ejection fraction
English Abstract
Journal Article
Mortality
Necrosis Q waves
Observational Study

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Date Completed 31.01.2024

Date Revised 31.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ancard.2023.101628

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364756322