Independent association of left atrial function with exercise capacity in patients with preserved ejection fraction

Heart

Volumn 98, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 1311-1317

  Kusunose, Kenya ^a   Motoki, Hirohiko ^a   Popovic, Zoran B ^a   Thomas, James D ^a   Klein, Allan L ^a   Marwick, Thomas H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC EQUIVALENT; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ATRIAL FUNCTION; BODY MASS INDEX; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84864875405     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302007     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Wong RC, Yeo TC. Left atrial volume is an independent predictor of exercise capacity in patients with isolated left ventricular diastolic dysfunction. Int J Cardiol 2010;144:425-7.
2. Rossi A, Cicoira M, Bonapace S, et al. Left atrial volume provides independent and incremental information compared with exercise tolerance parameters in patients with heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Heart 2007;93:1420-5. (Pubitemid 351480145)
3. Saraiva RM, Demirkol S, Buakhamsri A, et al. Left atrial strain measured by twodimensional speckle tracking represents a new tool to evaluate left atrial function. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2010;23:172-80.
4. Kurt M, Wang J, Torre-Amione G, et al. Left atrial function in diastolic heart failure. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging 2009;2:10-15.
5. Tan YT, Wenzelburger F, Lee E, et al. Reduced left atrial function on exercise in patients with heart failure and normal ejection fraction. Heart 2010;96:1017-23.
6. Meluzin J, Sitar J, Kristek J, et al. The role of exercise echocardiography in the diagnostics of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction. Eur J Echocardiogr 2011;12:591-602.
7. Skaluba SJ, Litwin SE. Mechanisms of exercise intolerance: insights from tissue Doppler imaging. Circulation 2004;109:972-7. (Pubitemid 38282849)
8. Peteiro J, Bouzas-Mosquera A. Exercise capacity and left ventricular function. JAMA 2009;301:2325e6; author reply 2326-7.
9. Devereux RB, Alonso DR, Lutas EM, et al. Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular hypertrophy: comparison to necropsy findings. Am J Cardiol 1986;57:450-8. (Pubitemid 16119719)
10. Anwar AM, Soliman OI, Geleijnse ML, et al. Assessment of left atrial volume and function by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography. Int J Cardiol 2008;123:155-61. (Pubitemid 350250890)
11. Nagueh SF, Appleton CP, Gillebert TC, et al. Recommendations for the evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function by echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2009;22:107-33.
12. Burgess MI, Jenkins C, Sharman JE, et al. Diastolic stress echocardiography: hemodynamic validation and clinical significance of estimation of ventricular filling pressure with exercise. J Am Coll Cardiol 2006;47:1891-900.
13. Kim ES, Ishwaran H, Blackstone E, et al. External prognostic validations and comparisons of age- and gender-adjusted exercise capacity predictions. J Am Coll Cardiol 2007;50:1867-75. (Pubitemid 350007955)
14. Gulati M, Black HR, Shaw LJ, et al. The prognostic value of a nomogram for exercise capacity in women. N Engl J Med 2005;353:468-75. (Pubitemid 41127291)
15. Motoki H, Dahiya A, Bhargava M, et al. Assessment of left atrial mechanics in patients with atrial fibrillation: comparison between two-dimensional speckle-based strain and velocity vector imaging. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2012;25:428-35.
16. Vianna-Pinton R, Moreno CA, Baxter CM, et al. Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography of the left atrium: feasibility and regional contraction and relaxation differences in normal subjects. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2009;22:299-305.
17. Knofczynski GT, Mundfrom D. Sample sizes when using multiple linear regression for prediction. Educ Psychol Meas 2007;68:431-42.
18. Grewal J, McCully RB, Kane GC, et al. Left ventricular function and exercise capacity. JAMA 2009;301:286-94.
19. Kitzman DW, Higginbotham MB, Cobb FR, et al . Exercise intolerance in patients with heart failure and preserved left ventricular systolic function: failure of the Frank- Starling mechanism. J Am Coll Cardiol 1991;17:1065-72.
20. Tsang TS, Barnes ME, Gersh BJ, et al. Left atrial volume as a morphophysiologic expression of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and relation to cardiovascular risk burden. Am J Cardiol 2002;90:1284-9. (Pubitemid 35449471)
21. Mondillo S, Cameli M, Caputo ML, et al. Early detection of left atrial strain abnormalities by speckle-tracking in hypertensive and diabetic patients with normal left atrial size. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2011;24:898-908.
22. Kokubu N, Yuda S, Tsuchihashi K, et al. Noninvasive assessment of left atrial function by strain rate imaging in patients with hypertension: a possible beneficial effect of renin-angiotensin system inhibition on left atrial function. Hypertens Res 2007;30:13-21.
23. Melenovsky V, Borlaug BA, Rosen B, et al . Cardiovascular features of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction versus nonfailing hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy in the urban Baltimore community: the role of atrial remodeling/dysfunction. J Am Coll Cardiol 2007;49:198-207. (Pubitemid 46070209)
24. Kuhl JT, Moller JE, Kristensen TS, et al. Left atrial function and mortality in patients with NSTEMI an MDCT study. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging 2011;4:1080-7.
25. Welles CC, Ku IA, Kwan DM, et al. Left atrial function predicts heart failure hospitalization in subjects with preserved ejection fraction and coronary heart disease longitudinal data from the heart and soul study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2012;59:673-80.
26. Boyd AC, Richards DAB, Marwick T, et al. Atrial strain rate is a sensitive measure of alterations in atrial phasic function in healthy ageing. Heart 2011;97:1513-19.
27. Ha JW, Oh JK, Pellikka PA, et al. Diastolic stress echocardiography: a novel noninvasive diagnostic test for diastolic dysfunction using supine bicycle exercise Doppler echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2005;18:63-8. (Pubitemid 40051198)
28. Park JH, Marwick TH. Use and limitations of E/e′ to assess left ventricular filling pressure by echocardiography. J Cardiovasc Ultrasound 2011;19:169-73.
29. Holland DJ, Prasad SB, Marwick TH. Prognostic implications of left ventricular filling pressure with exercise. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging 2010;3:149-56.
30. Oldershaw PJ, Dawkins KD, Ward DE, et al. Diastolic mechanisms of impaired exercise tolerance in aortic valve disease. Br Heart J 1983;49:568-73. (Pubitemid 13106241)
31. Chahal NS, Lim TK, Jain P, et al. Ethnicity-related differences in left ventricular function, structure and geometry: a population study of UK Indian Asian and European white subjects. Heart 2009;96:466-71.
32. Myers J, Prakash M, Froelicher V, et al. Exercise capacity and mortality among men referred for exercise testing. N Engl J Med 2002;346:793-801. (Pubitemid 34987553)
33. Cameli M, Lisi M, Focardi M, et al. Left atrial deformation analysis by speckle tracking echocardiography for prediction of cardiovascular outcomes. Am J Cardiol 2012;110:264-69.
34. Mora S, Redberg RF, Cui Y, et al. Ability of exercise testing to predict cardiovascular and all-cause death in asymptomatic women: a 20-year follow-up of the lipid research clinics prevalence study. JAMA 2003;290:1600-7. (Pubitemid 37430384)