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Síndrome Coronariana Aguda/tratamento farmacológico , Anticoagulantes/uso terapêutico , Aspirina/uso terapêutico , Fibrilação Atrial/tratamento farmacológico , Fármacos Cardiovasculares/uso terapêutico , Fibrinolíticos/uso terapêutico , Hospitalização/estatística & dados numéricos , Intervenção Coronária Percutânea , Inibidores da Agregação Plaquetária/uso terapêutico , Pirazóis/uso terapêutico , Piridonas/uso terapêutico , Síndrome Coronariana Aguda/complicações , Síndrome Coronariana Aguda/cirurgia , Idoso , Anticoagulantes/efeitos adversos , Fibrilação Atrial/complicações , Terapia Combinada , Quimioterapia Combinada , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Eletivos , Feminino , Fibrinolíticos/efeitos adversos , Hemorragia/induzido quimicamente , Hemorragia/epidemiologia , Humanos , Tempo de Internação/estatística & dados numéricos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Multicêntricos como Assunto/estatística & dados numéricos , Inibidores da Agregação Plaquetária/efeitos adversos , Modelos de Riscos Proporcionais , Estudos Prospectivos , Antagonistas do Receptor Purinérgico P2Y/efeitos adversos , Antagonistas do Receptor Purinérgico P2Y/uso terapêutico , Ensaios Clínicos Controlados Aleatórios como Assunto/estatística & dados numéricos , Análise de Sobrevida , Resultado do Tratamento , Vitamina K/antagonistas & inibidoresRESUMO
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/etiologia , Arritmias Cardíacas/prevenção & controle , Desfibriladores Implantáveis , Antagonistas de Receptores de Mineralocorticoides/farmacologia , Espironolactona/farmacologia , Disfunção Ventricular Esquerda/complicações , Idoso , Feminino , Insuficiência Cardíaca/complicações , Insuficiência Cardíaca/terapia , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos RetrospectivosRESUMO
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.