Clinical features and prognosis associated with a preserved left ventricular systolic function in a large cohort of congestive heart failure outpatients managed by cardiologists. Data from Italian network on congestive heart failure

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 656-664

  Tarantini, Luigi ^a   Faggiano, Pompilio ^b   Senni, Michele ^c   Lucci, Donata ^d   Bertoli, Daniele ^e   Porcu, Maurizio ^f   Opasich, Cristina ^g   Tavazzi, Luigi ^h   Maggioni, Aldo Pietro ^d   Zanetta, M ^c   Bielli, M ^c   Uslenghi, P G ^c   Milanese, G ^c   Ugliengo, G ^c   Lucchina, P G ^c   Pozzi, R ^c   Rabajoli, F ^c   Giannuzzi, P ^c   Bosimini, E ^c   Richichi, I ^c   Ferrari, A ^c   Barzizza, F ^c   Mazzoleni, D ^c   Dadda, F ^c   Rusconi, C ^c   Gibelli, G ^c   Castiglioni, G ^c   Bortolini, F ^c   Turelli, A L ^c   Ferrari, G ^c   Yemoli, R ^c   Pirelli, S ^c   Bianchi, C ^c   Emanuelli, C ^c   De Martini, M ^c   Maggi, G ^c   Agnelli, D ^c   Ferrara, E ^c   Grieco, A ^c   Cazzani, E ^c   Giordano, A ^c   Zanelli, E ^c   Domenighini, D ^c   De Servi, S ^c   Castelli, C ^c   Bellanti, G ^c   Moroni, E ^c   Klugmann, S ^c   Recalcati, F ^c   Malliani, A ^c   Muzzupappa, S ^c   Turiel, M ^c   Guzzetti, M ^c   Cappiello, E ^c   Corallo, S ^c   Valenti, D ^c   Ferrantini, M ^c   Gara, E ^c   Sala, L ^c   Achilli, F ^c   Vincenzi, A ^c   Schweiger, C ^c   Rusconi, F ^c   Palvarini, M ^c   Ani, A ^c   Campana, C ^c   Serio, A ^c   Croce, A ^c   Nassiacos, D ^c   Meloni, S ^c   Giani, P ^c   Nicoli, T ^c   Occhi, G ^c   Bandini, P ^c   Onofri, M ^c   Amati, L ^c   Ravetta, M ^c   Pedretti, R ^c   Paolucci, M ^c   Salerno Uriarte, J ^c   Morandi, F ^c   Provasoli, S ^c   Lombardo, M ^c   Quorso, P ^c   Vergara, G ^c   Ferro, A ^c   Mattarei, M ^c   Pedrolli, C ^c   Catania, G ^c   Russo, P ^c   Celegon, L ^c   Candelpergher, G ^c   Delise, P ^c   Marcon, C ^c   Buchberger, R ^c   Stefanini, M G ^c   Iliceto, S ^c   Cacciavillani, L ^c   Boffa, G M ^c   Dalle Mule, J ^c   more..

^a SAN MARTINO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b S Orsola Hospital   (Italy)

^c Ospedeli Riuniti ^*

^d ANMCO RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^e San Bartolomeo Hospital   (Italy)

^f BROTZU HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g IRCCS S Maugeri Hospital Foundation   (Italy)

^h San Mateo Hospital IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Heart failure; Hypetension; Outpatients

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SOUND; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0036874032     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Congestive heart failure in the United States: a new epidemic. NIH Data Fact Sheet. Bethesda, MD: US Department of Health and Human Service, 1996: 1-62.
2. Massie BM, Shah NB. Evolving trends in the epidemiologic factors of heart failure: rationale for preventive strategies and comprehensive disease management. Am Heart J 1997; 133: 703-12.
3. Cowie MR, Mosterd A, Wood DA, et al. The epidemiology of heart failure. Eur Heart J 1997; 18: 208-25.
4. Schocken DD, Arrieta MI, Leaverton PE. Prevalence and mortality rate of congestive heart failure in the United States. J Am Coll Cardiol 1992; 20: 301-6.
5. Parmley W. Pathophysiology and current treatment of fcongestive heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol 1989; 13: 771-85.
6. Echeverria HH, Bilsker MS, Myerburg RJ, Kessler KM. Congestive heart failure: echocardiographic insights. Am J Med 1983; 75: 750-5.
7. Dougherty AH, Maccarelli GV, Gray EL, Hicks CH, Goldestein RA. Congestive heart failure with normal systolic function. Am J Cardiol 1984; 54: 778-82.
8. Soufer R, Wohlgelernter D, Vita NA, et al. Intact systolic function in clinical congestive heart failure. Circulation 1985; 5: 1032-6.
9. Cohn JN, Johnson MS. Heart failure with normal ejection fraction. The V-HeFT Study. Veterans Administration Cooperative Study Group. Circulation 1990; 81 (Suppl): III48-III53.
10. Ghali JK, Kadakia S, Bhatt A, Cooper RS, Liao Y. Survival of heart failure patients with preserved versus impaired systolic function: the prognostic implication of blood pressure. Am Heart J 1992; 123 (Part 1): 993-7.
11. McAlister F, Teo KK, Taher M, et al. Insight into contemporary epidemiology and outpatient management of congestive heart failure. Am Heart J 1999; 138: 87-94.
12. Setaro JF, Soufer R, Remetz MS, Perlmutter RA, Zaret BL. Long-term outcome in patients with congestive heart failure and intact systolic left ventricular performance. Am J Cardiol 1992; 69: 1212-6.
13. Dauterman KW, Massie BM, Gheorghiade M. Heart failure associated with preserved systolic function: a common and costly clinical entity. Am Heart J 1998; 135: S310-S319.
14. Vasan RS, Benjamin EJ, Levy D. Prevalence, clinical feature and prognosis of diastolic heart failure: an epidemiologic perspective. J Am Coll Cardiol 1995; 26: 1565-74.
15. Vasan RS, Larson MG, Benjamin EJ, Evans JC, Reiss CK, Levy D. Congestive heart failure in subjects with normal versus reduced left ventricular ejection fraction: prevalence and mortality in a population-based cohort. J Am Coll Cardiol 1999; 33: 1948-55.
16. Aronow WA, Ahn C, Kronzon I. Prognosis of congestive heart failure in elderly patients with normal versus abnormal left ventricular systolic function associated with coronary artery disease. Am J Cardiol 1990; 66: 1257-9.
17. Aronow WA, Ahn C, Kronzon I. Normal left ventricular ejection fraction in older persons with congestive heart failure. Chest 1998; 113: 867-9.
18. Pernenkil R, Vinson JM, Shah AS, Beckham V, Wittenberg C, Rich MW. Course and prognosis in patients ≥ 70 years of age with congestive heart failure and normal versus abnormal left ventricular ejection fraction. Am J Cardiol 1997; 79: 216-9.
19. McDermott MM, Feinglass J, Lee PI, et al. Systolic function, readmission rates, and survival among consecutively hospitalized patients with congestive heart failure. Am Heart J 1997; 134: 728-36.
20. Senni M, Tribouilly C, Rodeheffer RJ, et al. Congestive heart failure in the community: a study of all incident cases in Olmsted County, Minnesota, in 1991. Circulation 1998; 98: 2282-9.
21. Task Force on Heart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology. Guidelines for the diagnosis of heart failure. Eur Heart J 1995; 16: 741-51.
22. Albanese MC, Plewka M, Gregori D, et al. Use of medical resources and quality of life of patients with chronic heart failure: a prospective survey in a large Italian community hospital. Eur J Heart Fail 1999; 1: 411-7.
23. O'Connell JB, Bristow MR. Economic impact of heart failure in the United States: time for a different approach. J Heart Lung Transplant 1994; 13: S107-S112.
24. Philbin EF, Weil HFC, Erb TA, Jenkins PL. Cardiology or primary care for heart failure in the community setting. Process of care and clinical outcomes. Chest 1999; 116: 346-54.
25. Cohen-Solal A, Desnos M, Delahaye F, Emeriau JP, Hanania G. A national survey of heart failure in French hospitals. The Myocardiopathy and Heart Failure Working Group of the French Society of Cardiology, the National College of General Hospital Cardiologists and the French Geriatrics Society. Eur Heart J 2000; 21: 763-9.
26. Auerbach AD, Hamel MB, Davis RB, et al. Resource use and survival of patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure: differences in care by specialty of the attending physician. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. Ann Intern Med 2000; 132: 191-200.
27. Bellotti P, Badano LP, Acquarone N, et al. Specialty-related differences in the epidemiology, clinical profile, management and outcome of patients hospitalized for heart failure. The OSCUR Study. Eur Heart J 2001; 22: 596-604.
28. European Study Group on Diastolic Heart Failure. How to diagnose diastolic heart failure. Eur Heart J 1998; 19: 990-1003.
29. Vasan RS, Levy D. Defining diastolic heart failure. A call for standardized diagnostic criteria. Circulation 2000; 101: 2118-21.
30. Gandhi SK, Powers JC, Nomenir AM, et al. The pathogenesis of acute pulmunary edema associated with hypertension. N Engl J Med 2001; 344: 17-22.
31. Aurigemma GP, Gottdiener JS, Shemanski L, Gardin J, Kitzman D. Predictive value of systolic and diastolic function for incident congestive heart failure in the elderly: the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2001; 37: 1042-8.
32. Cintron G, Johnson G, Francis G, Cobb F, Cohn JN. Prognostic significance of serial changes in left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with congestive heart failure. The V-HeFT VA Cooperative Studies Group. Circulation 1993; 87 (Suppl I): VI17-VI23.
33. The SOLVD Investigators. Effect of enalapril on survival in patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction and congestive heart failure. N Engl J Med 1991; 325: 293-302.
34. Bourassa MG, Gurnme O, Bangdiwala SI, et al. Natural history and patterns of current practice in heart failure. The Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD) Investigators. J Am Coll Cardiol 1993; 22 (Suppl A): 14A-19A.
35. Massie BM, Fisher SG, Radford M, et al. Effect of amiodarone on clinical status and left ventricular function in patients with congestive heart failure. CHF-STAT Investigators. Circulation 1996; 93: 2128-34.
36. van Campen LC, Visser FC, Visser CA. Ejection fraction improvement by beta-blocker treatment in patients with heart failure: an analysis of studies published in the literature. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1998; 32 (Suppl 1): S31-S35.
37. Anguita M, Arizon JM, Bueno G, Concha M, Valles F. Spontaneous clinical and hemodynamic improvement in patients on waiting list for heart transplantation. Chest 1992; 102: 96-9.
38. Levine TB, Levine AB, Goldberg D, et al. Reversal of end-stage heart failure is predicted by long-term therapeutic response rather than initial hemodynamic and neurohormonal profile. J Heart Lung Transplant 1996; 15: 297-303.
39. Metra M, Nodari S, Garbellini M, et al. The effects of mid-and long-term administration (3-4 years) of carvedilol in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Cardiologia 1997; 42: 503-12.
40. Cioffi G, Stefenelli C. Tollerabilità ed effetti clinici del carvedilolo nel paziente anziano ultrasettantenne con insufficienza cardiaca cronica associata a disfunzione sistolica ventricolare sinistra. Ital Heart J Suppl 2001; 2: 1319-29.
41. Ennezat PV, Powers JC, Nomeir AM, et al. From systolic to diastolic chronic heart failure. (abstr) J Am Coll Cardiol 2000; 35: 163A.
42. Dauterman KW, Rowell RA, Massie BM. CHF with preserved systolic function: mortality, readmission rate and ACE-inhibitor effects in a statewide sample of community hospitals. (abstr) Circulation 1997; 96 (Suppl I): I-391.
43. Philbin EF, Rocco TA. Use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in heart failure with preserved left ventricular systolic function. Am Heart J 1997; 134: 188-95.
44. Allison Mayer-Oakes S, Oye RK, Leake B. Predictors of mortality in older patients following medical intensive care: the importance of functional status. J Am Geriatr Soc 1991; 39: 862-8.
45. Brown AM, Cleland JFG. Influence of concomitant disease on patterns of hospitalization in patients with heart failure discharged from Scottish hospitals in 1995. Eur Heart J 1998; 19: 1063-9.
46. Cicoira M, Davos CH, Florea V, et al. Chronic heart failure in the very elderly: clinical status, survival and prognostic factors in 188 patients more than 70 years old. Am Heart J 2001; 142: 174-80.
47. Ross J Jr. Left ventricular function and the timing of surgical treatment in valvular heart disease. Ann Intern Med 1981; 94: 498-504.
48. Wisenbach T. Does normal pump function belie muscle dysfunction in chronic severe mitral regurgitation? Circulation 1988; 77: 515-25.
49. Senni M, Redfield MM. Heart failure with preserved systolic function: a different natural history? J Am Coll Cardiol 2001; 38: 1277-82.
50. Vasan RS, Benjamin EJ. Diastolic heart failure - no time to relax. N Engl J Med 2001; 344: 56-9.