Etiologies and predictors of mortality in an all-comer population of patients with non-ischemic heart failure.
Clin Res Cardiol
; 113(5): 737-749, 2024 May.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Despite progress in diagnosis and therapy of heart failure (HF), etiology and risk stratification remain elusive in many patients.METHODS:
The My Biopsy HF Study (German clinical trials register number DRKS22178) is a retrospective monocentric study investigating an all-comer population of patients with unexplained HF based on a thorough workup including endomyocardial biopsy (EMB).RESULTS:
655 patients (70.9% men, median age 55 [45/66] years) with non-ischemic, non-valvular HF were included in the analyses. 489 patients were diagnosed with HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), 52 patients with HF with mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF) and 114 patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). After a median follow-up of 4.6 (2.5/6.6) years, 94 deaths were enumerated (HFrEF 68; HFmrEF 8; HFpEF 18), equating to mortality rates of 3.3% and 11.6% for patients with HFrEF, 7.7% and 15.4% for patients with HFmrEF and 5.3% and 11.4% for patients with HFpEF after 1 and 5 years, respectively. In EMB, we detected a variety of putative etiologies of HF, including incidental cardiac amyloidosis (CA, 5.8%). In multivariate logistic regression analysis adjusting for age, sex and comorbidities only CA, age and NYHA functional class III + IV remained independently associated with all-cause mortality (CA HRperui 3.13, 95% CI 1.5-6.51; p = 0.002).CONCLUSIONS:
In an all-comer population of patients presenting with HF of unknown etiology, incidental finding of CA stands out to be independently associated with all-cause mortality. Our findings suggest that prospective trials would be helpful to test the added value of a systematic and holistic work-up of HF of unknown etiology.Palabras clave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Disfunción Ventricular Izquierda
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Insuficiencia Cardíaca
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Clin Res Cardiol
Asunto de la revista:
CARDIOLOGIA
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Alemania