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Síndrome Coronario Agudo/tratamiento farmacológico , Anticoagulantes/uso terapéutico , Aspirina/uso terapéutico , Fibrilación Atrial/tratamiento farmacológico , Fármacos Cardiovasculares/uso terapéutico , Fibrinolíticos/uso terapéutico , Hospitalización/estadística & datos numéricos , Intervención Coronaria Percutánea , Inhibidores de Agregación Plaquetaria/uso terapéutico , Pirazoles/uso terapéutico , Piridonas/uso terapéutico , Síndrome Coronario Agudo/complicaciones , Síndrome Coronario Agudo/cirugía , Anciano , Anticoagulantes/efectos adversos , Fibrilación Atrial/complicaciones , Terapia Combinada , Quimioterapia Combinada , Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Electivos , Femenino , Fibrinolíticos/efectos adversos , Hemorragia/inducido químicamente , Hemorragia/epidemiología , Humanos , Tiempo de Internación/estadística & datos numéricos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Estudios Multicéntricos como Asunto/estadística & datos numéricos , Inhibidores de Agregación Plaquetaria/efectos adversos , Modelos de Riesgos Proporcionales , Estudios Prospectivos , Antagonistas del Receptor Purinérgico P2Y/efectos adversos , Antagonistas del Receptor Purinérgico P2Y/uso terapéutico , Ensayos Clínicos Controlados Aleatorios como Asunto/estadística & datos numéricos , Análisis de Supervivencia , Resultado del Tratamiento , Vitamina K/antagonistas & inhibidoresRESUMEN
AIMS/OBJECTIVES: Patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) often receive an adjunctive anti-arrhythmic therapy. We propose that an addition of spironolactone will reduce the number of clinically significant ventricular arrhythmias and ICD-related therapies. METHODS AND RESULTS: In a multicentre retrospective study, 64 patients with ischaemic and non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy whose left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was <35% and with ICD were selected. Amongst these patients, 28 patients were on spironolactone and 36 were not taking spironolactone. The ICD interrogation data were analysed for a maximum of 12 months. Wilcoxon Rank Sum test was used to compare the study and control groups. The outcomes were: (1) the number of shocks/anti-tachycardia pacing (ATP) episodes and (2) the number of episodes of ventricular tachycardia (VT) requiring ATP, non-sustained VT (NSVT), and ventricular fibrillation (VF) over the study period. The spironolactone group had fewer monthly, VTs (P=0.027) (requiring ATP). The two groups did not differ in the number of NSVT or VF per month. CONCLUSION: Addition of spironolactone as an adjunct to ICD therapy in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) reduces VT requiring ATP, but does not affect NSVT or VF per month.
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Arritmias Cardíacas/etiología , Arritmias Cardíacas/prevención & control , Desfibriladores Implantables , Antagonistas de Receptores de Mineralocorticoides/farmacología , Espironolactona/farmacología , Disfunción Ventricular Izquierda/complicaciones , Anciano , Femenino , Insuficiencia Cardíaca/complicaciones , Insuficiencia Cardíaca/terapia , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Estudios RetrospectivosRESUMEN
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to characterize how aging impacts the left ventricular (LV) functional reserve. BACKGROUND: Early diastolic LV filling slows markedly with advancing age, but the effects of beta-adrenergic stimulation on filling, and its major determinant, relaxation, have not been investigated in an aging population. Although the responses of contractility and heart rate to catecholamines reportedly diminish with age, the effect of age on the responses to steady-state dobutamine infusions is unclear. METHODS: Groups of younger (40 +/- 10 years, n = 26) and older (68 +/- 11 years, n = 24) normal adult patients were studied at baseline and at three progressive dobutamine infusion dosages (5, 10, and 20 mug/kg/min). The LV function was evaluated by two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. Myocardial relaxation was evaluated from cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR)-based rho, a preload-independent surrogate for tau . Effective LV pump-function index (PFi), defined as systolic blood pressure/end-systolic LV diameter, was measured. RESULTS: Both groups showed expected dose-dependent increases in heart rate and LV systolic function, diastolic function, and relaxation. Early LV filling reserve was much greater in younger than older patients (E-wave increase from baseline to highest dose, 24.0 vs. 9.5 cm/s, p < 0.004), although the dose responses of rho were indistinguishable (0.18% vs. 0.19%/ms, p = 0.22). Whereas dobutamine caused a significantly greater increase of PFi in younger than older patients (30.1 vs. 15.6 mm Hg/cm, p < 0.0001), there was no difference in heart rate augmentation (37 vs. 38 beats/min, p = 0.94). CONCLUSIONS: Aging is accompanied by a blunted inotropic but preserved chronotropic response to steady-state dobutamine infusion. Although LV filling reserve declines with age, relaxation reserve does not.