التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Cardiac death prediction and impaired cardiac sympathetic innervation assessed by MIBG in patients with failing and nonfailing hearts. |
| المؤلفون: |
Nakata, Tomoaki, Miyamoto, Kenjiroh, Doi, Atsushi, Sasao, Hisataka, Wakabayashi, Takeru, Kobayashi, Hiroshi, Tsuchihashi, Kazufumi, Shimamoto, Kazuaki, Nakata, T, Miyamoto, K, Doi, A, Sasao, H, Wakabayashi, T, Kobayashi, H, Tsuchihashi, K, Shimamoto, K |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology; Nov1998, Vol. 5 Issue 6, p579-590, 12p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
HEART disease related mortality, INNERVATION of the heart, CARDIAC arrest, CARDIAC output, CONFIDENCE intervals, HEART, HEART diseases, PROGNOSIS, RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS, SURVIVAL, SYMPATHETIC nervous system, SINGLE-photon emission computed tomography, BENZENE derivatives, STROKE volume (Cardiac output), ODDS ratio, IODINE radioisotopes |
| مستخلص: |
Background: Although cardiac sympathetic nerve dysfunction is related to poor clinical outcome, a critical sympathetic dysfunction level for predicting cardiac death is still unclear. The current study was designed to investigate which indices derived from metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) imaging have prognostic value compared with clinical and cardiac function variables, and to determine the threshold of cardiac MIBG activity for identifying patients likely to suffer cardiac death in both failing and nonfailing hearts.Methods and Results: Myocardial I-123-MIBG activity was quantified as a heart-to-mediastinum ratio in 414 consecutive patients, 173 (42%) of whom had symptomatic heart failure. After cardiac function measurements, patients were followed up with an end-point of cardiac or noncardiac death. During a mean follow-up period of 22 months, 37 cardiac deaths occurred: 23 resulted from heart failure, 9 were sudden cardiac deaths, and 5 were fatal myocardial infarctions. Multivariate analysis using the Wald chi2 and the Cox proportional hazard model revealed that late heart-to-mediastinum ratio, the use of nitrates, early heart-to-mediastinum ratio, and left ventricular ejection fraction were independent predictors of cardiac death; late heart-to-mediastinum ratio, New York Heart Association (NYHA) class, the presence of previous myocardial infarction, and age were independent predictors of heart failure and sudden cardiac death. Late heart-to-mediastinum ratio was the most powerful predictor of overall cardiac death among the variables. The Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that a late heart-to-mediastinum ratio of 1.74 or less, age greater than 60 years, the presence of myocardial infarction, and NYHA functional class 3 or 4 strongly indicated poor clinical outcomes. Furthermore, the more powerful incremental prognostic values were obtained by using MIBG imaging in combination with conventional clinical variables.Conclusions: Impaired cardiac sympathetic innervation assessed by MIBG activity has the greatest potential for predicting cardiac death and may be useful for identifying a threshold level for selecting patients at risk for death by heart failure, sudden cardiac death, and fatal myocardial infarction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
