Prognostic value of doppler echocardiographic mitral inflow patterns: Implications for risk stratification in patients with chronic congestive heart failure

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1049-1055

  Hansen, Alexander ^a   Haass, Markus ^a   Zugck, Christian ^a   Krueger, Carsten ^a   Unnebrink, Kristina ^a   Zimmermann, Rainer ^a   Kuebler, Wolfgang ^a   Kuecherer, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NITRATE; STANNOUS FLUORIDE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0035869311     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(00)01211-0     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Selection and treatment of candidates for heart transplantation: A statement for health professionals from the Committee on Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation of the Council on Clinical Cardiology, American Heart Association
2. Prevalence and mortality rate of congestive heart failure in the United States
3. Mortality remains high for outpatient transplant candidates with prolonged (>6 months) waiting list time
4. Efficacy of medical therapy tailored for severe congestive heart failure in patients transferred for urgent cardiac transplantation
5. Clinical and hemodynamic predictors of survival in patients aged <65 years with severe congestive heart failure secondary to ischemic or nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy
6. Ejection fraction, peak exercise oxygen consumption, cardiothoracic ratio, ventricular arrhythmias, and plasma norepinephrine as determinants of prognosis in heart failure
7. Incremental prognostic value of exercise hemodynamic variables in chronic congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease or to dilated cardiomyopathy
8. Value of peak exercise oxygen consumption for optimal timing of cardiac transplantation in ambulatory patients with heart failure
9. Left ventricular filling in dilated cardiomyopathy: Relation to functional class and hemodynamics
10. Prognostic significance of Doppler-derived left ventricular filling variables in dilated cardiomyopathy
11. Systolic and diastolic dysfunction in patients with clinical diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy: Relation to symptoms and prognosis
12. Importance of the left ventricular filling pressure on diastolic filling in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy
13. Estimation of left ventricular end-diastolic pressure by pulsed Doppler ultrasound
14. Recommendations for quantitation of the left ventricle by two-dimensional echocardiography
15. Prognostic value of Doppler transmitral flow patterns in patients with congestive heart failure
16. Is the six-minute walk test a reliable substitute for peak oxygen uptake in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy?
17. Doppler-derived mitral deceleration time of early filling is a strong predictor of pulmonary capillary wedge pressure in postinfarction patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction
18. Restrictive left ventricular filling pattern in dilated cardiomyopathy assessed by Doppler echocardiography: Clinical, echocardiographic and hemodynamic correlations and prognostic implications
19. Estimation of mean left atrial pressure from transesophageal pulsed Doppler echocardiography of pulmonary venous flow
20. Predictors of prognosis in patients awaiting heart transplantation
21. Predicting death from progressive heart failure secondary to ischemic or idiopathic cardiomyopathy
22. Development and prospective validation of a clinical index to predict survival in ambulatory patients referred for cardiac transplant evaluation
23. Effect of aging on Doppler echocardiographic filling parameters in normal subjects and in patients with coronary artery disease
24. Influence of alteration in preload on the pattern of left ventricular diastolic filling as assessed by Doppler echocardiography in humans
25. Determinants of left ventricular filling and of the diastolic pressure-volume relation
26. Echocardiography in serial evaluation of left ventricular systolic and diastolic function: Importance of image acquisition, quantitation, and physiological variability in clinical and investigational applications
27. Endomyocardial nitric oxide synthase and left ventricular preload reserve in dilated cardiomyopathy