CLINICAL STUDY: LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY
Prediction of mortality in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy by clinical, exercise stress, and echocardiographic data
Abdou Elhendy, MD, PhD*,
Karen M. Modesto, MD*,
Douglas W. Mahoney, MSc ,
Bijoy K. Khandheria, MD*,
James B. Seward, MD* and
Patricia A. Pellikka, MD*,*
* Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Department of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Manuscript received February 8, 2002;
revised manuscript received July 30, 2002,
accepted September 26, 2002.
* Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Patricia A. Pellikka, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, 200 1st Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
Pellikka.patricia{at}mayo.edu
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated the clinical, exercise stress test, and echocardiographic predictors of mortality and cardiac events in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH).
BACKGROUND: Left ventricular hypertrophy is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
METHODS: Symptom-limited treadmill exercise echocardiography was performed for evaluation of coronary artery disease in 483 patients (age, 66 ± 11 years; 281 men) with LVH. End points during follow-up were all-cause mortality and hard cardiac events (cardiac death and nonfatal myocardial infarction [MI]).
RESULTS: Forty-six patients died and 14 had nonfatal MI. The cumulative mortality rate was higher in patients with abnormal exercise echocardiography (3% vs. 0.4% at one year, 11.7% vs. 3.7% at three years, and 18.3% vs. 9.5% at five years, p < 0.001). In a sequential multivariate analysis model of clinical, exercise test, and rest and exercise echocardiographic data, incremental predictors of mortality were workload (hazard ratio [HR], 0.5; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.3 to 0.9), rate pressure product (HR, 0.7; 95% CI, 0.5 to 0.9), left ventricular (LV) mass index (HR, 1.4; 95% CI, 1.1 to 1.8), and failure to increase ejection fraction (EF) with exercise (HR, 2.1; 95% CI, 1.1 to 3.8). Predictors of cardiac events were history of coronary artery bypass grafting (HR, 2.6; 95% CI, 1.2 to 5.4), lower exercise rate-pressure product (HR, 0.6; 95% CI, 0.5 to 0.8), resting wall motion score index (HR, 1.4; 95% CI, 1.1 to 1.8), and failure to increase EF with exercise (HR, 3.3; 95% CI, 1.6 to 6.9).
CONCLUSIONS: In patients with LVH, LV mass index and EF response to exercise are independent predictors of mortality, incremental to clinical and exercise test data and resting LV function. A normal exercise echocardiogram predicts a relatively low mortality rate during the following three years.
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
| | CAD | | coronary artery disease | | ECG | | electrocardiogram/electrocardiographic | | EF | | ejection fraction | | LV | | left ventricle/ventricular | | LVH | | left ventricular hypertrophy | | METs | | metabolic equivalents | | MI | | myocardial infarction |
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