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J Am Coll Cardiol, 2000; 35:136-143 © 2000 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation |








* Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
St. Lukes/Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York, USA
University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
|| University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
¶ Hospital Tenon, Paris, France
# University of Alberta, Walter C. Mackenzie Health Center, Edmonton, Canada
** The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Manuscript received March 9, 1999; revised manuscript received July 2, 1999, accepted September 21, 1999.
Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. David R. Holmes Jr, Division of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905
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This study characterized clinical factors predictive of cardiogenic shock developing after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
BACKGROUND
Cardiogenic shock remains a common and ominous complication of AMI. By identifying patients at risk of developing shock, preventive measures may be implemented to avert its development.
METHODS
We analyzed baseline variables associated with the development of shock after thrombolytic therapy in the Global Utilization of Streptikonase and Tissue-Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries (GUSTO-I) trial. Using a Cox proportional hazards model, we devised a scoring system predicting the risk of shock. This model was then validated in the Global Use of Strategies to Open Occluded Coronary Arteries (GUSTO-III) cohort.
RESULTS
Shock developed in 1,889 patients a median of 11.6 h after enrollment. The major factors associated with increased adjusted risk of shock were age (
2 = 285, hazard ratio [95% confidence interval] 1.47 [1.40, 1.53]), systolic blood pressure (
2 = 280), heart rate (
2 = 225) and Killip class (
2 = 161, hazard ratio 1.70 [1.52, 1.90] and 2.95 [2.39, 3.63] for Killip II versus I and Killip III versus I, respectively) upon presentation. Together, these four variables accounted for >85% of the predictive information. These findings were transformed into an algorithm with a validated concordance index of 0.758. Applied to the GUSTO-III cohort, the four variables accounted for >95% of the predictive information, and the validated concordance index was 0.796.
CONCLUSIONS
A scoring system accurately predicts the risk of shock after thrombolytic therapy for AMI based primarily on the patients age and physical examination on presentation.
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2 limb leads or >0.2 mV in
2 precordial leads) were eligible for randomization to one of four intravenous (IV) thrombolytic strategies: 1) streptokinase (Kabikinase, Kabi Vitrum, Stockholm, Sweden), 1.5 million U over 1 h, with subcutaneous heparin; 2) streptokinase with IV heparin; 3) accelerated recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (Activase, Genentech, South San Francisco, California), 15 mg bolus followed by infusion at 0.75 mg/kg (
50 mg) for 30 min and 0.5 mg/kg (
35 mg) over the next hour, and IV heparin; 4) tissue-type plasminogen activator (1.0 mg/kg over 1 h (
90 mg)) and streptokinase (1 million U over 1 h) with IV heparin. Adjunctive therapy included chewable aspirin (
160 mg; Bayer) followed by 160 to 325 mg/day, and IV atenolol (10 mg; ICI Pharmaceuticals, Wilmington, Delaware) followed by daily oral therapy (50 to 100 mg). Other medications were given at the discretion of the attending physician. Angiography, right-heart catheterization, percutaneous coronary revascularization, intraaortic balloon pumping and coronary bypass surgery were also used at the discretion of the attending physician.
Patients with cardiogenic shock were prospectively identified (5,15,16,18). Cardiogenic shock was defined as systolic blood pressure <90 mm Hg for
1 h that was not responsive to fluid administration alone, thought to be secondary to cardiac dysfunction, and associated with signs of hypoperfusion or cardiac index
2.2 liters/min/mm2 and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure >18 mm Hg. Patients in whom systolic blood pressure increased to >90 mm Hg within 1 h after administration of positive inotropic agents, or patients who died within 1 h of hypotension but met other criteria for cardiogenic shock, were still classified as having cardiogenic shock. In the current analysis we excluded patients who presented with shock or who were missing precise data as to the timing of shock relative to the time of enrollment. To characterize the temporal relationship of shock to thrombolytic therapy, the occurrence of shock was also analyzed based on its timing after enrollment:
1 h, >1 to 2 h, >2 to 6 h, >6 to 24 h, >24 to 48 h, and >48 h.
Statistical analysis. Continuous variables are presented as medians with 25th and 75th percentiles and discrete variables as frequencies and percentages. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards survival modeling techniques were used to develop a model to predict the time to in-hospital cardiogenic shock. Missing characteristics were imputed for all patients with partial data using a method for simultaneous imputation and transformation of predictor variables based on the concepts of maximum generalized variance and canonical variables (20). A backward-elimination method was used to determine the significant predictors in the model (elimination criterion, p > 0.05). Because the precise timing was not available for invasive procedures such as angioplasty or intraaortic balloon counterpulsation, we did not include these variables in our analyses. Predictors in the above models were tested using the Wald chi-square test. Results are also presented as hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Once the final model was developed, bootstrapping was used (21,22) for internal validation (100 bootstrapping samples). The quality of the final model based on the original as well as the bootstrapped samples is described with the use of the concordance index, which is a description of the discriminant power of the model to reliably predict an outcome (23).
On the basis of the coefficients in the model, a probability chart was developed for the occurrence of shock in-hospital. As we previously described (18), each variable in the model received a certain score based on the value of the variable. The total points were then transformed into predictive values.
Validation. For verification purposes, the model we developed in the GUSTO-I cohort was used in the Global Use of Strategies to Open Occluded Coronary Arteries III (GUSTO-III) cohort (24). In GUSTO-III, 30-day outcome of patients randomized to receive either reteplase or alteplase was equivalent. We have previously reported that treatment with alteplase versus reteplase did not have an effect on the occurrence or the outcome of shock in GUSTO-III (25).
Of the 15,058 patients enrolled in GUSTO-III, we eliminated 83 from this analysis because they presented with shock and an additional 15 because we were unable to determine from available data when they developed shock; this left a modeling sample of 14,960 patients. We tested the GUSTO-I shock model in this GUSTO-III population, of whom 643 patients developed cardiogenic shock after enrollment.
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Time to shock. The median time from enrollment to shock was 11.6 (2.2, 41.9) h. Shock developed within 6 h of enrollment in 39.6% of shock patients and within 24 h in 63.2% (Table 1). The vast majority of shock patients (97.7%) received thrombolytic therapy, although only 79.4% received such treatment as stipulated by the protocol. The median time from onset of symptoms to treatment was 3.0 (2.1, 4.1) h for the shock patients.
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There were several differences in baseline characteristics among the various shock groups categorized based on the timing of shock (Table 1). Shock developed earlier in younger patients who were more commonly cigarette smokers and more frequently had inferior wall AMI. The patients with early shock had lower blood pressure upon presentation without a significant difference in heart rate or Killip class.
Model.
In the Cox proportional hazards survival model (Table 2), the major factors associated with increased adjusted risk of shock were age (
2 = 285, hazard ratio and 95% CI of 1.47 [1.40, 1.53]), as well as systolic blood pressure (
2 = 280), heart rate (
2 = 225) and Killip class (
2 = 161, hazard ratio of 1.70 [1.52, 1.90] and 2.95 [2.39, 3.63] for Killip class II vs. class I and Killip class III vs. Class I, respectively) upon presentation. Together, these four variables provided >85% of the information needed to predict the occurrence of shock.
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2 = 96, hazard ratio of 1.49 [1.38, 1.62]), systolic blood pressure (
2 = 138), heart rate (
2 = 94) and Killip class (
2 = 82; hazard ratio of 2.0 [1.65, 2.43] and hazard ratio of 3.34 [2.43, 4.61] for Killip class II vs. class I and Killip class III vs. class I, respectively). These four variables accounted for >95% of the predictive information in the GUSTO-III population. The validated concordance index was 0.796. | Discussion |
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Predictors of shock. Our findings demonstrate that certain demographic and clinical parameters are strongly associated with the development of shock after thrombolytic therapy. Older age was the variable most strongly associated with the occurrence of shock: for every 10-year increase in age, the risk of developing shock was greater by 47%. In addition, simple parameters derived from the physical examination, such as systolic blood pressure, heart rate and Killip class among patients who did not present with shock, were strong predictors of shock developing subsequently. Together, the patients age and these physical parameters provided >85% of the information needed to predict shock in our model. These variables have also been shown to be major predictors of 30-day mortality in an analysis of the entire GUSTO-I cohort (26).
Comparison with prior studies. Leor et al. (27) previously reported that in the prethrombolysis era, among patients with AMI without clinical signs of heart failure upon presentation, cardiogenic shock developed in-hospital in 89 (2.6%) of 3,465 patients. Among the independent predictors for in-hospital shock were older age, female sex, prior angina, prior stroke and peripheral vascular disease. Hands et al. (28) reported that shock developed in 60 (7.1%) of 845 patients admitted with AMI also in the prethrombolysis era. Independent predictors of the occurrence of shock were age >65 years, left ventricular ejection fraction <35%, larger infarct as estimated by serial enzyme determinations, prior AMI and diabetes mellitus. In these earlier studies (27,28), parameters from the physical examination were not included in the analysis.
Our study of 1,889 patients who developed shock after thrombolytic therapy complements these prior studies, demonstrating again the strong association between increased age and the occurrence of shock. Moreover, our study underscores the importance of the physical examination; variables easily derived from the physical examination were of much greater significance in predicting the occurrence of shock than other variables such as prior AMI or infarct location. Similarly, we have recently demonstrated that other variables derived from the physical examination such as altered sensorium, oliguria and cold, clammy skin were of great significance in predicting death among patients with shock (18).
Timing of shock. The challenge for the clinician is to promptly and thoroughly identify the patient at risk for developing shock and to avert this complication. In the prethrombolysis era, Leor et al. (27) reported that shock developed at a mean of 4 ± 4 days after admission (median two days, range 3 h to 16 days) in patients who were admitted with Killip class I, and Hands et al. (28) reported that shock occurred at a mean of 3.4 ± 0.8 days (with half the patients developing shock within the first 24 h) in patients who did not have shock upon admission. More recent data have stressed the earlier occurrence of shock (7,12); shock occurred at a median of 9 h after onset of AMI. In GUSTO-I, we observed that among patients who did not present with shock and who received thrombolytic therapy, shock developed at a median of 11.6 h. Moreover, shock developed within 6 h in 39.6% of shock patients and within 24 h in 63.2% of such patients. These data indicate that the window of opportunity to attempt to avert the development of shock is very short-lived; patients must be identified and measures should be taken within hours of presentation.
Study limitations. There are several caveats to consider in interpreting our results. First, our analysis pertains only to patients who did not die or develop shock before arrival at the hospital and who were well enough to sign a written informed consent to participate in a randomized trial. Moreover, this cohort included only patients with ST-segment elevation upon presentation who were eligible for thrombolytic therapy. Second, some of the patients who came in with a low blood pressure may have been in subclinical shock. However, the study protocol also required that the hypotension be accompanied by signs of hypoperfusion to define shock. Apparently the attending physicians did not consider these patients to be in cardiogenic shock using our definition.
Third, in the current study we identified patients at risk of developing shock but did not prove that it is possible to avert the occurrence of shock after thrombolytic therapy. Although thrombolytic therapy in itself has reduced the occurrence of shock (29,30), there is no evidence as yet that other measures after thrombolytic therapy influence the development of shock. However, revascularization after thrombolytic therapy may be of value in high-risk populations, in contrast to its lack of effect when applied indiscriminately (31,32). Unfortunately, in current clinical practice, revascularization is more commonly offered to lower-risk patients (3335).
In addition, the administration of therapeutic agents that improve cardiac myocyte metabolism, such as IV glucose-insulin-potassium solutions (36), may prove to be salutary. Studies investigating the efficacy of aggressive revascularization or other measures after thrombolytic therapy in preventing shock in high-risk subpopulations, such as those identified by our model, are warranted.
Conclusions. We devised a simple scoring system to predict the risk of cardiogenic shock occurring after thrombolytic therapy, and we validated it in an independent cohort. Based primarily on the age of the patient and findings easily derived from the physical examination upon presentation, it is possible to estimate with accuracy the risk of shock. The physician attending to the patient with AMI now faces the challenge of promptly identifying the patient at risk and taking measures to avert the occurrence of shock.
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