Open AccessPrognostic Value of Biventricular Strain in Risk Stratifying in Patients With Acute Heart Failure
Author(s) -
Park JaeHyeong,
Park Jin Joo,
Park JunBean,
Cho GooYeong
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of the american heart association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.494
H-Index - 85
ISSN - 2047-9980
DOI - 10.1161/jaha.118.009331
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , heart failure , cardiology , confidence interval , proportional hazards model , adverse effect , pulmonary hypertension
Background Few studies have shown that right ventricular ( RV ) function is independently related to adverse events regardless of left ventricular ( LV ) function in heart failure. We evaluated the prognostic value of global longitudinal strain ( GLS ) of both ventricles in patients with acute heart failure. Methods and Results We measured biventricular strains in 1824 randomly selected patients (973 men, aged 70±14 years) from a strain registry. A total of 799 patients (43.8%) died during the median follow‐up duration of 31.7 months. In univariate analysis, LVGLS and RVGLS were significantly associated with all‐cause mortality. We classified them into 4 strain groups according to LVGLS (≥9%) and RVGLS (≥12%). On Cox proportional hazards analysis, group 4 (<9% LVGLS and <12% RVGLS ) had the worst prognosis, with a hazard ratio ( HR ) of 1.755 (95% confidence interval [ CI ], 1.473–2.091; P <0.001) compared with that of group 1 (≥9% LVGLS and ≥12% RVGLS ). After multivariate analysis, both LVGLS (per 1% decrease; HR : 1.057; 95% CI , 1.029–1.086; P <0.001) and RVGLS (per 1% decrease; HR : 1.022; 95% CI , 1.004–1.040; P =0.014) were also significant. The HR of RVGLS <12% was higher in patients without pulmonary hypertension (assessed by maximal tricuspid regurgitation ≤2.8 m/s) after the adjustment of LVGLS ( HR : 1.40 [95% CI , 1.11–1.77] versus 1.07 [95% CI , 0.88–1.30] with pulmonary hypertension; interaction, P =0.043). Conclusions In the patients with acute heart failure, RVGLS was significantly associated with all‐cause mortality regardless of LVGLS , and those with decreased biventricular GLS showed the worst prognosis. The predictive power of RVGLS was more prominent in the absence of pulmonary hypertension.