• Int. J. Cardiol. · Aug 2013

    Multicenter Study

    Incremental prognostic value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing and resting haemodynamics in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

    • Roland Wensel, Darrel P Francis, F Joachim Meyer, Christian F Opitz, Leonhard Bruch, Michael Halank, Jörg Winkler, Hans-Jürgen Seyfarth, Sven Gläser, Friedrich Blumberg, Anne Obst, Michael Dandel, Roland Hetzer, and Ralf Ewert.
    • International Centre for Circulatory Health, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK. rolandwensel@gmail.com
    • Int. J. Cardiol. 2013 Aug 20; 167 (4): 1193-8.

    BackgroundPulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a fatal disease despite recent treatment advances. Individual risk stratification is important. Exercise capacity and invasive haemodynamic data are both relevant, but data on the combined prognostic power are lacking.Methods226 consecutive patients with idiopathic or familial PAH were included at seven specialised tertiary centres. All patients underwent right heart catheterization and cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET).ResultsDuring follow-up (1508 ± 1070 days) 72 patients died and 30 underwent transplantation. On multivariate analysis percentage of predicted peak oxygen uptake (%predicted peak VO2 [risk ratio 0.95]), pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR [1.105,]) and increase in heart rate during exercise (ΔHR [0.974]) were independent prognostic predictors (all p<0.0001). Peak VO2 allowed for risk stratification with a survival of 100, 92.9, 87.4 and 69.6% at 1 year and 97.7, 63.2, 41 and 23% at 5 years for the 4th, 3rd, 2nd and 1st quartiles, respectively. Dichotomizing by median peak VO2 and intra-group median PVR showed a worse 1-year survival for patients with low peak VO2/higher PVR compared to patients with low peak VO2/low PVR, high peak VO2/high PVR and high peak VO2/low PVR (65 vs. 93, 93, 100%, p<0.001). At 10 years survival was different for all 4 subgroups (19 vs. 25 vs. 48 vs. 75%, adjusted p<0.05).ConclusionsPeak VO2, PVR and ΔHR independently predict prognosis in patients with PAH. Low peak VO2, high PVR and low ΔHR refer to poor prognosis. Combined use of peak VO2 and PVR provides accurate risk stratification underlining the complementary prognostic information from cardiopulmonary exercise testing and resting invasive haemodynamic data.Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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