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European Heart Journal 2000 21(22):1864-1871; doi:10.1053/euhj.2000.2174
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Comparison of the prognostic value of left ventricular filling and peak oxygen uptake in patients with systolic heart failure

J.-Y. Tabet, D. Logeart, C. Geyer, C. Guiti, P.V. Ennezat, M. Dahan and A. Cohen-Solal

Service de Cardiologie, Hôpital Beaujon, Clìchy, France

revised February 29, 2000; accepted March 1, 2000

Abstract

Aim The aim of this prospective study was to compare the prognostic value of the mitral inflow pattern and peak oxygen uptake in patients with systolic heart failure.

Background Peak oxygen uptake is a major prognostic parameter in heart failure. It is not known whether a restrictive mitral inflow pattern has similar prognostic value.

Methods One hundred heart failure patients (ejection fraction <45%) underwent exercise testing after Doppler evaluation; prognosis was assessed after a mean follow-up of 17 months.

Results The ejection fraction was larger in group 1 (non-restrictive pattern: E/A mitral wave ratio <1 or between 1 and 2 with E wave deceleration time ≥140ms, n=45) than in group 2 (restrictive pattern: E/A ratio >2 or between 1 and 2 with E deceleration time <140ms, n=40) (29±9 vs 22±10%, P<0·05). Peak oxygen uptake was lower in group 2 (17±4 vs 22±5ml.min–1.kg–157±11 vs 75±15% of predicted values;P<0·05 for both comparisons). Univariate analysis showed that the deceleration time (r=0·65), E/A ratio (r=–0·50) and heart rate increment (r=0·47) correlated best with peak oxygen uptake. A third group of patients with persistent fusion of the E and A waves (n=15) had exercise responses similar to those of group 2 patients. A short deceleration time (P=0·006), a restrictive or a fusion pattern (P=0·04) were associated with a poor outcome; the prognostic value of these Doppler variables was greater than that of ejection fraction, but remained less than peak oxygen uptake indexed by predicted values (P=0·0004).

Conclusion The left ventricular filling pattern is a strong predictor of exercise capacity, and outcome, in patients with systolic heart failure and is independent of the left ventricular ejection fraction. Peak oxygen uptake remains a more powerful prognostic variable.

Key Words: Peak oxygen consumption, exercise, chronic heart failure, diastole, Doppler, filling, prognosis

Correspondence: Professor Alain Cohen-Solal, Service de Cardiologie, Hôpital Beaujon, 100 Boulevard du General Leclerc, 92110 Clichy, France.

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