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Left Atrial Distensibility to Predict Prognosis in Consecutive Patients

NCT01171040 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 2000

Last updated 2011-03-08

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Summary

Left ventricular filling pressure (LVFP) has prognostic significance in patients with heart failure. Traditionally, it should be assessed by invasive method, as cardiac catheterization and Swan-Gung catheter. In advance of new techniques and modality, echocardiography provides some useful parameters for assessing LVFP, such myocardial tissue Doppler imaging. Many articles had documented that peak velocity of early-diastolic trans-mitral inflow velocity divided by early-diastolic velocity over mitral annulus correlated closely to LVFP. However, myocardial tissue Doppler only provides the information of regional myocardium, so patients with regional wall motion abnormality, as coronary artery disease, can't be assessed by this method without handicap. In addition, conduction disturbance, like bundle branch block, also influences the result of myocardial tissue Doppler. For resolving those problems, the investigators had designed a new global parameter to assess LVFP. In the investigators prior study, left atrial distensibility correlated logarithmically to LVFP in patients with severe mitral regurgitation and also in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Left atrial distensibility provided a new viewpoint to assess left ventricular diastolic function and to predict prognosis. This time, to extend left atrial distensibility to general population received echocardiographic examination for predicting prognosis is attempted.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Echocardiography, including the measurements of left atrial (LA) distensibility

The LA volumes were measured at three points: 1) immediately before the mitral valve opening (maximal LV volume or Volmax); 2) at onset of the P-wave on electrocardiography (pre-atrial contraction volume or Volp); and 3) at mitral valve closure (minimal LV volume or Volmin). The LA distensibility was calculated as (Volmax - Volmin)x 100% / Volmin. The LA ejection fraction was calculated as (Volp - Volmin)x 100% / Volp. In all patients, LA volumes were indexed to body surface area (BSA).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital.

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shih-Hung Hsiao, MD · Cardiovascular Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-07-31
Primary Completion
2011-07-31
Completion
2012-07-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

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