Prognostic Role of Myocardial Blood Flow Impairment in Idiopathic Left Ventricular Dysfunction

Author:

Neglia Danilo1,Michelassi Claudio1,Trivieri Maria Giovanna1,Sambuceti Gianmario1,Giorgetti Assuero1,Pratali Lorenza1,Gallopin Michela1,Salvadori Piero1,Sorace Oreste1,Carpeggiani Clara1,Poddighe Rosa1,L’Abbate Antonio1,Parodi Oberdan1

Affiliation:

1. From the C.N.R. Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy; Ospedale Civile Tabarracci, Viareggio, Italy (R.P.); and C.N.R. Institute of Clinical Physiology, Milan, Italy (O.P.).

Abstract

Background Depressed myocardial blood flow (MBF) has been reported in dilated cardiomyopathy. The aim of this study was to investigate whether MBF impairment is an independent predictor of prognosis in patients with idiopathic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. Methods and Results Sixty-seven patients (52 male, mean age 52±12 years) with different degrees of idiopathic LV systolic dysfunction (average LV ejection fraction, 0.34±0.10; range, 0.07 to 0.49) were prospectively enrolled. Thirty-four subjects (51%) had no history of heart failure symptoms at enrollment (NYHA class I). All patients underwent clinical and functional evaluation and a PET study to measure absolute MBF at rest and after intravenous dipyridamole. During a mean follow-up of 45±37 months, 24 patients had major cardiac events, including cardiac death in 8 and development or progression of heart failure in 16 patients. Multivariate regression analysis (Cox proportional hazards model) revealed heart rate (χ 2 11.06, P <0.001), LV end-diastolic dimension (χ 2 11.73, P <0.001), and dipyridamole MBF (χ 2 11.04, P <0.001) as independent predictors of subsequent cardiac events. Dipyridamole MBF ≤1.36 mL · min −1 · g −1 was associated with an increase in the relative risk of death, development, or progression of heart failure of 3.5 times over other more common clinical and functional variables. Conclusions The present study demonstrates that severely depressed MBF is a predictor of poor prognosis in patients with idiopathic LV dysfunction independently of the degree of LV functional impairment and of the presence of overt heart failure.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Subject

Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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