Non-severe aortic regurgitation increases short-term mortality in acute heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Mild or moderate aortic regurgitation (AR) has only little effect on cardiovascular outcome in people with normal left ventricular ejection fraction (EF); therefore, it is not perceived as a major clinical problem. This study investigates whether mild or moderate AR is associated with increased short-term mortality in patients hospitalized for treatment of acute heart failure (AHF) and whether mild or moderate AR impacts differently on short-term mortality in AHF patients with reduced EF (AHFrEF), mid-range EF (AHFmrEF), or preserved EF (AHFpEF).

Methods and results

This mono-centric study included 505 consecutive adult patients hospitalized for de novo or worsening chronic HF not related to acute ischaemia or severe valvular pathology in the echocardiogram at index hos

SUBMITTER: Abdurashidova T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7754983 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature