Right Ventricular Free Wall Strain and Congestive Hepatopathy in Patients with Acute Worsening of Chronic Heart Failure: A CATSTAT-HF Echo Substudy.

ABSTRACT: Right ventricular (RV) function is an important predictor of prognosis in patients with heart failure. However, the relationship of the RV free wall longitudinal strain (RV FWS) and the degree of hepatic dysfunction during the acute worsening of heart failure (AWHF) is unknown. We sought to determine associations of RV FWS with laboratory liver function tests and parameters of RV function including tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE), RV fractional area change (RV FAC), maximal tricuspid jet velocity (TR Vmax), RV S' velocity, and estimated RV systolic pressure (RVSP). A total of 42 AWHF patients from the CATSTAT-HF study were stratified in two groups by the RV FWS median (-16.5%). Patients < RV FWS median had significantly prolonged international normalized ratio (INR; p =

SUBMITTER: Borovac JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7290588 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature