Is Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure a Reliable Indicator of Postcapillary Pulmonary Hypertension?

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Although current pulmonary hypertension (PH) guidelines recommend a pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) >15 mm Hg for the detection of a postcapillary component, the rationale of this recommendation may not be quite compatible with the peculiar hemodynamics of PH. We hypothesize that a high PCWP alone does not necessarily indicate left-sided disease, and this diagnosis can be improved using left ventricle transmural pressure difference (∆ PTM). In this 2-center, retrospective, observational study, we enrolled 1,070 patients with PH who underwent heart catheterization, with the final study population comprising 961 cases. ∆ PTM was calculated as PCWP minus right atrial pressure. The patients with group II PH had significantly higher ∆ PTM values (12.6 ± 6.6 mm Hg) compared with the other groups (1.1 ± 4.8 in group I, 12.4 ± 6.6 in group II, 2.5 ± 6.4 in group III, and 0.8 ± 8.0 in group IV, p <0.001) despite overlapping PCWP values. A ∆ PTM cutoff of 7 mm Hg identifies left heart disease when PCWP is >15 (area under curve 0.825, 95% confidence interval 0.784 to 0.866, p <0.001). Five-year mortality was significantly higher in patients with high ∆ PTM and PCWP subgroups compared with low ∆ PTM plus high PCWP (26.1% vs 18.5%, p = 0.027) and low ∆ PTM and PCWP subgroups (26.1% vs 15.6%, p <0.001). ∆ PTM has supplementary discriminatory power in distinguishing patients with and without postcapillary PH. In conclusion, a new approach utilizing ∆ PTM may improve our understanding of PH pathophysiology and may identify a subpopulation that may potentially benefit from PH-specific treatments.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:211

Enthalten in:

The American journal of cardiology - 211(2024) vom: 15. Jan., Seite 307-315

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Aslanger, Emre [VerfasserIn]
Akaslan, Dursun [VerfasserIn]
Ataş, Halil [VerfasserIn]
Yıldırımtürk, Özlem [VerfasserIn]
Öz, Melih [VerfasserIn]
Kocakaya, Derya [VerfasserIn]
Yıldızeli, Bedrettin [VerfasserIn]
Mutlu, Bülent [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Heart failure
Hemodynamics
Journal Article
Observational Study
Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure
Pulmonary hypertension
Pulmonary vascular resistance

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Date Completed 08.01.2024

Date Revised 08.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.amjcard.2023.11.034

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364760389