Left atrial compliance index predicts exercise capacity in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction irrespective of right ventricular dysfunction

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1045-1053 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibadete Bytyci ◽  
Gani Bajraktari ◽  
Iacopo Fabiani ◽  
Per Lindqvist ◽  
Afrim Poniku ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Marco Guazzi ◽  
Robert Naeije

The health burden of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is increasingly recognized. Despite improvements in diagnostic algorithms and established knowledge on the clinical trajectory, effective treatment options for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction remain limited, mainly because of the high mechanistic heterogeneity. Diagnostic scores, big data, and phenomapping categorization are proposed as key steps needed for progress. In the meantime, advancements in imaging techniques combined to high-fidelity pressure signaling analysis have uncovered right ventricular dysfunction as a mediator of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction progression and as major independent determinant of poor outcome. This review summarizes the current understanding of the pathophysiology of right ventricular dysfunction in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction covering the different right heart phenotypes and offering perspectives on new treatments targeting the right ventricle in its function and geometry.


2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 190-190
Author(s):  
Pranvera Ibrahimi ◽  
Gani Bajraktari ◽  
Afrim Poniku ◽  
Violeta Hysenaj ◽  
Artan Ahmeti ◽  
...  

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