Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Patients with Heart Failure: Impact of Gender in Predictive Value for Heart Transplantation Listing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exercise testing is key in the risk stratification of patients with heart failure (HF). There are scarce data on its prognostic power in women. Our aim was to assess the predictive value of the heart transplantation (HTx) thresholds in HF in women and in men.

Methods

Prospective evaluation of HF patients who underwent cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) from 2009 to 2018 for the composite endpoint of cardiovascular mortality and urgent HTx.

Results

A total of 458 patients underwent CPET, with a composite endpoint frequency of 10.5% in females vs. 16.0% in males in 36-month follow-up. Peak VO₂ (pVO₂), VE/VCO₂ slope and percent of predicted pVO₂ were independent discriminators of the composite endpoint, particul

SUBMITTER: Garcia Bras P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10608092 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature