Mechanistic Features Associated With Improvement in Mitral Regurgitation After Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy and Their Relation to Long-Term Patient Outcome
- 1 July 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Circulation: Heart Failure
- Vol. 6 (4), 685-693
- https://doi.org/10.1161/circheartfailure.112.000112
Abstract
Background—: Mechanisms of mitral regurgitation (MR) reduction with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) are complex, and their association with long-term outcome is unclear. We sought to elucidate mechanistic features of reduction in MR with CRT, which impact long-term patient survival. Methods and Results—: A prospective longitudinal study of 277 patients with heart failure with QRS width ≥120 ms and ejection fraction ≤35% for CRT was performed. Quantitative echocardiography, including dyssynchrony analysis, was performed at baseline. MR was quantified by color Doppler before and 6 months after CRT. Predefined end points of death, transplant, or left ventricular assist device were tracked during 4 years. There were 114 (48%) patients with CRT with significant MR (≥moderate) at baseline; of whom 48 (42%) patients had MR improvement, and 24 (19%) patients had MR worsening after CRT. The 66 events (47 deaths, 10 transplantations, and 9 left ventricular assist devices) were strongly associated with significant MR after CRT (hazard ratio, 3.58; 95% confidence interval, 2.18–5.87; P 200 ms, lack of severe left ventricular dilatation (end-systolic dimension index 2 ), and lack of echocardiographic scar at papillary muscle insertion sites (all P P =0.0001). Conclusions—: Significant MR after CRT was strongly associated with less favorable long-term survival. Echocardiographic mechanistic features were identified that were associated with improvement in MR after CRT and favorable long-term survival.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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