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- Henein, Michael, et al.
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Impaired left ventricular systolic function reserve limits cardiac output and exercise capacity in HFpEF patients due to systemic hypertension
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Ingår i: International Journal of Cardiology. - : Elsevier. - 0167-5273 .- 1874-1754. ; 168:2, s. 1088-1093
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVES: Heart failure (HF) patients with preserved left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) (HFpEF) due to systemic hypertension (SHT) are known to have limited exercise tolerance. Despite having normal EF at rest, we hypothesize that these patients have abnormal systolic function reserve limiting their exercise capacity. METHODS: Seventeen patients with SHT (mean age 68±9years) but no valve disease and 14 healthy individuals (mean age of 65±10years) underwent resting and peak exercise echocardiography using conventional, tissue Doppler and speckle tracking techniques. The differences between resting and peak exercise values were also analyzed (Δ). Exercise capacity was determined as the workload divided by body surface area. RESULTS: Resting values for left atrial (LA) volume/BSA (r=-0.66, p<0.001) and global longitudinal strain rate (GLSR) in early (e) and late (a) diastole (r=0.47 and 0.46, p<0.05 for both) correlated with exercise capacity. LVEF increased during exercise in normals (mean Δ EF=10±8%) but failed to do so in patients (mean Δ EF=0.6±9%, p<0.001 between groups). LV GLSR during systole (s) also failed to increase with exercise in patients, to the same extent as it did in normals (0.2±0.2 vs. 0.6±0.3 1/s, p<0.001). The difference between rest and exercise (Δ) in LV lateral wall systolic velocity from tissue Doppler (s') (0.71, p<0.001), Δ in cardiac output (r=0.60, p<0.001) and Δ GLSRs (r=0.48, p<0.05) all correlated with exercise capacity independent of changes in heart rate. CONCLUSION: HFpEF patients with hypertensive LV disease have significantly limited exercise capacity which is related to left atrial enlargement as well as compromised LV systolic function at the time of the symptoms. The limited myocardial systolic function reserve seems to be underlying important explanation for their limited exercise capacity.
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- Kostenius, Catrine, et al.
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Project: ArctiChildren InNet
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Sedan 2003 har jag varit delaktig i Arctic Children, ett forsknings- och utvecklingsprojekt med övergripande mål att förbättra barn och ungdomars psykosocialahälsa och välbefinnande. Ett givande samarbete som inkluderar norra delarna av Sverige, Finland, Norge och Ryssland som sedan 2012 gått in i projektets tredje fas för att ta sig an gemensamma utmaningarna kopplat till barn och ungdomars psykiska, psykologiska, emotionella, sociala och andliga hälsa med hjälp av empowerment och informations-och kommunikationsteknik (IKT).
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- Lindmark, Krister, et al.
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Prevalence of wild type transtyrethin cardiac amyloidosis in a heart failure clinic
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Ingår i: ESC Heart Failure. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 2055-5822. ; 8:1, s. 745-749
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims: Wild type transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRwt) has gained interest during recent years due to better diagnostic tools and the emergence of treatment options. Little is known about the prevalence of the disease. We aimed to investigate the prevalence in a heart failure population with myocardial hypertrophy.Methods and results: All patients with an ICD code of heart failure living within the catchment area of Umeå University hospital and intraventricular septum >14 mm were offered screening with 3,3‐diphosphono‐1,2‐propanodicarboxylic acid (DPD) scan and a clinical work up. Out of 2238 patients with heart failure, 174 patients were found to have a septum >14 mm. Ten patients were already diagnosed with hereditary ATTR cardiomyopathy, 12 patients had ATTRwt cardiomyopathy, 12 patients had known HCM, one patient had AL amyloidosis, and four patients had already undergone a negative DPD scan (DPD uptake grade 0 and 1) within the last 3 years. This left 134 patients who we tried to contact for screening, but 48 patients had either died or declined to participate. Out of 86 screened patients, 13 had a DPD uptake of grade 2 or 3 without other amyloid disease making the total number of patients with ATTRwt in this population 25.Conclusions: Approximately 20% of investigated patients in a cohort with heart failure and increased myocardial wall thickness has ATTRwt. Calculated for the whole population of heart failure patients, the prevalence is just over 1.1%. Comparing this number to the total population would give an estimated prevalence of 1:6000.
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- Löfbacka, Viktor, et al.
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Combining ECG and echocardiography to identify transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis in heart failure
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Ingår i: Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1475-0961 .- 1475-097X. ; 41:5, s. 408-416
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- AIMS/BACKGROUND: Transthyretin amyloid (ATTR) amyloidosis cardiomyopathy is an underdiagnosed, causatively treatable cause of heart failure. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of electrocardiography (ECG) and echocardiography on patients with increased interventricular septum diameter (IVSd) to identify ATTR cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA) patients.METHODS: We investigated 58 patients with heart failure and an IVSd >14mm. Included were 33 ATTR-CA patients and 25 controls that consisted of non-amyloidosis heart failure (HF) patients with negative 99mTc-3,3-diphosphono-1,2-propanodicarboxylic acid (DPD) scintigraphy. We used echocardiography including 2D speckle tracking strain and a 12-lead ECG to test the accuracy to differentiate the groups.RESULTS: We found high diagnostic accuracy (98%) for differentiating ATTR-CA from HF controls using a combination of R amplitude in -aVR from ECG and relative wall thickness acquired from echocardiography. With this combined model (RWT/ R in -aVR), the sensitivity was 100% and specificity was 95% using a cut off value of 0.90. Furthermore, the area under the curve was 99% and the negative predictive value was 100%.CONCLUSION: We found that a simple combination of ECG and echocardiographic parameters used in clinical settings was able to differentiate ATTR-CA from other etiologies of HF with increased interventricular septum thickness. The high sensitivity and negative predictive value render the algorithm useful for selection of patients for further diagnostic procedures for ATTR-CA.
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