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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schalcher, Christoph
• Rickli, Hans
• Brehm, Manuel
• Weilenmann, Daniel
• Oechslin, Erwin
• Kiowski, Wolfgang
• Brunner-La Rocca, Hans Peter

Titel

Prolonged Oxygen Uptake Kinetics During Low-Intensity Exercise Are Related to Poor Prognosis in Patients With Mild-to-Moderate Congestive Heart Failure

Ist Teil von

• Chest, 2003-08, Vol.124 (2), p.580-586

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To investigate the prognostic value of oxygen uptake (▪o2) kinetics during low-intensity exercise in patients with congestive heart failure. Prospective cohort study. Tertiary care center. One hundred forty-six consecutive patients (128 men) with chronic heart failure, followed up for a mean (± SD) duration of 25 ± 15 months. A treadmill exercise test was performed with “breath by breath” gas-exchange monitoring. ▪o2 kinetics were defined as the O2 deficit (ie, Δ▪o2 × time[rest to steady state] − Σ▪o2[rest to steady state]) and mean response time (MRT) [ie, O2 deficit/Δ▪o2]. Cardiac death, urgent cardiac transplantation, and hospitalization due to worsening heart failure were considered as the end points. Thirty patients (21%) died, 11 patients (8%) underwent urgent transplantation, and 32 patients (22%) were hospitalized. In univariate analysis, MRT was the most powerful predictor of survival, survival free of urgent transplantation, and survival free of hospitalization (hazard ratios [HRs] per 10 s, 1.65, 1.72, and 1.61, respectively; all p < 0.0001). The predictive value of MRT exceeded that of peak ▪o2 (HR per mL/kg/min, 0.90; p = 0.02, 0.91; p = 0.007, and 0.95; p = 0.08, respectively). In multivariate analysis, MRT (HR per 10 s, 1.73; p = 0.0002), resting systolic BP (HR per 10 mm Hg, 0.65; p = 0.003), and the slope of the ventilatory response to exercise (HR per 10 U, 1.68; p = 0.02) were independent predictors of survival. Our results suggest that ▪o2 kinetics are strongly related to outcome in heart failure patients. Since it has several additional advantages over peak exercise testing (eg, less time-consuming, less demanding for the patients, less dependent on motivation, and applicable in patients with limitations other than cardiopulmonary disease), it has the potential to become a prognostic test for the assessment of heart failure patients.