Left atrial volume monitoring and cardiovascular risk in patients with end-stage renal disease: A prospective cohort study

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1316-1322

  Tripepi, Giovanni ^a   Benedetto, Francesco Antonio ^b   Mallamaci, Francesca ^a   Tripepi, Rocco ^a   Malatino, Lorenzo ^c   Zoccali, Carmine ^a,d  

^a Division of Nephrology ^*  (Italy)

^b Morelli Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT ATRIAL VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART VOLUME; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 34047219664     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2006080881     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. K/DOQI Workgroup: K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for cardiovascular disease in dialysis patients. Am J Kidney Dis 45[Suppl 3]: S1-153, 2005
2. Foley RN, Parfrey PS, Morgan J, Barre PE, Campbell P, Cartier P, Coyle D, Fine A, Handa P, Kingma I, Lau CY, Levin A, Mendelssohn D, Muirhead N, Murphy B, Plante RK, Posen G, Wells GA: Effect of hemoglobin levels in hemodialysis patients with asymptomatic cardiomyopathy. Kidney Int 58: 1325-1335, 2000
3. London GM, Pannier B, Guerin AP, Blacher J, Marchais SJ, Darne B, Metivier F, Adda H, Safar ME: Alterations of left ventricular hypertrophy in and survival of patients receiving hemodialysis: Follow-up of an interventional study. J Am Soc Nephrol 12: 2759-2767, 2001
4. Cice G, Ferrara L, Di Benedetto A, Russo PE, Marinelli G, Pavese F, Iacono A: Dilated cardiomyopathy in dialysis patients: Beneficial effects of carvedilol-A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. J Am Coll Cardiol 37: 407-411, 2001
5. Lang RM, Bierig M, Devereux RB, Flachskampf FA, Foster E, Pellikka PA, Picard MH, Roman MJ, Seward J, Shanewise J, Solomon S, Spencer KT, Sutton MSJ, Stewart W: Recommendations for chamber quantification. Eur J Echocardiogr 7: 79-108, 2006
6. Tsang TS, Barnes ME, Gersh BJ, Bailey KR, Seward JB: Left atrial volume as a morphophysiologic expression of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and relation to cardiovascular risk burden. Am J Cardiol 90: 1284-1289, 2002
7. Tsang TS, Barnes ME, Gersh BJ, Takemoto Y, Rosales AG, Bailey KR, Seward JB: Prediction of risk for first age-related cardiovascular events in an elderly population: The incremental value of echocardiography. J Am Coll Cardiol 42: 1199-1205, 2003
8. Kizer JR, Bella JN, Palmieri V, Liu JE, Best LG, Lee ET, Roman MJ, Devereux RB: Left atrial diameter as an independent predictor of first clinical cardiovascular events in middle-aged and elderly adults: The Strong Heart Study (SHS). Am Heart J 151: 412-418, 2006
9. Zoccali C, Benedetto FA, Mallamaci F, Tripepi G, Giacone G, Cataliotti A, Seminara G, Stancanelli B, Malatino LS: CREED Investigators: Prognostic impact of the indexation of left ventricular mass in patients undergoing dialysis. J Am Soc Nephrol 12: 2768-2774, 2001
10. Zoccali C, Benedetto FA, Mallamaci F, Tripepi G, Giacone G, Cataliotti A, Seminara G, Stancanelli B, Malatino LS: Prognostic value of echocardiographic indicators of left ventricular systolic function in asymptomatic dialysis patients. J Am Soc Nephrol 15: 1029-1037, 2004
11. Foley RN, Parfrey PS, Harnett JD, Kent GM, Murray DC, Barre PE: The prognostic importance of left ventricular geometry in uremic cardiomyopathy. J Am Soc Nephrol 5: 2024-2031, 1995
12. Tripepi G, Benedetto FA, Mallamaci F, Tripepi R, Malatino L, Zoccali C: Left atrial volume in end-stage renal disease: A prospective cohort study. J Hypertens 24: 1173-1180, 2006
13. Zoccali C, Benedetto FA, Tripepi G, Mallamaci F, Rapisarda F, Seminara G, Bonanno G, Malatino LS: Left ventricular systolic function monitoring in asymptomatic dialysis patients: A prospective cohort study. J Am Soc Nephrol 17: 1460-1465, 2006
14. Zoccali C, Benedetto FA, Mallamaci F, Tripepi G, Giacone G, Stancanelli B, Cataliotti A, Malatino LS: Left ventricular mass monitoring in the follow-up of dialysis patients: Prognostic value of left ventricular hypertrophy progression. Kidney Int 65: 1492-1498, 2004
15. Foley RN, Parfrey PS, Harnett JD, Kent GM, Murray DC, Barre PE: Hypoalbuminemia, cardiac morbidity, and mortality in end-stage renal disease. J Am Soc Nephrol 7: 728-736, 1996
16. de Simone G, Devereux RB, Daniels SR, Koren MJ, Meyer RA, Laragh JH: Effect of growth on variability of left ventricular mass: Assessment of allometric signals in adults and children and their capacity to predict cardiovascular risk. J Am Coll Cardiol 25: 1056-1062, 1995
17. Ganau A, Devereux RB, Pickering TG, Roman MJ, Schnall PL, Santucci S, Spitzer MC, Laragh JH: Relation of left ventricular hemodynamic load and contractile performance to left ventricular mass in hypertension. Circulation 81: 25-36, 1990
18. Lester SJ, Ryan EW, Schiller NB, Foster E: Best method in clinical practice and in research studies to determine left atrial size. Am J Cardiol 84: 829-832, 1999
19. Muiesan ML, Salvetti M, Monteduro C, Rizzoni D, Corbellini C, Castellano M, Porteri E, Agabiti-Rosei E: Changes in midwall systolic performance and cardiac hypertrophy reduction in hypertensive patients. J Hypertens 18: 1651-1656, 2000
20. Shimizu G, Zile MR, Blaustein AS, Gaasch WH: Left ventricular chamber filling and midwall fiber lengthening in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy: Overestimation of fiber velocities by conventional midwall measurements. Circulation 71: 266-272, 1985
21. de Simone G, Devereux RB, Koren MJ, Mensah GA, Casale PN, Laragh JH: Midwall left ventricular mechanics. An independent predictor of cardiovascular risk in arterial hypertension. Circulation 93: 259-265, 1996
22. Zoccali C, Bode-Boger S, Mallamaci F, Benedetto F, Tripepi G, Malatino L, Cataliotti A, Bellanuova I, Fermo I, Frolich J, Boger R: Plasma concentration of asymmetrical dimethylarginine and mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease: A prospective study. Lancet 358: 2113-2117, 2001
23. Therneau TM, Grambsch PM, Fleming TR: Martingale-based residuals and survival models. Biometrika 77: 216-218, 1990
24. Moller JE, Hillis GS, Oh JK, Seward JB, Reeder GS, Wright RS, Park SW, Bailey KR, Pellikka PA: Left atrial volume: A powerful predictor of survival after acute myocardial infarction. Circulation 107: 2207-2212, 2003
25. de Simone G, Muiesan ML, Ganau A, Longhini C, Verdecchia P, Palmieri V, Agabiti-Rosei E, Mancia G: Reliability and limitations of echocardiographic measurement of left ventricular mass for risk stratification and follow-up in single patients: The RES trial. Working Group on Heart and Hypertension of the Italian Society of Hypertension. Reliability of M-mode echocardiographic studies. J Hypertens 17: 1955-1963, 1999
26. Kuhl HP, Schreckenberg M, Rulands D, Katoh M, Schafer W, Schummers G, Bucker A, Hanrath P, Franke A: High-resolution transthoracic real-time three-dimensional echocardiography: Quantitation of cardiac volumes and function using semi-automatic border detection and comparison with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. J Am Coll Cardiol 43: 2083-2090, 2004