Clinical and echocardiographic predictors of mortality in acute pulmonary embolism
Author
Dahhan, Talal; Siddiqui, Irfan; Tapson, Victor F.; Velazquez, Eric J.; Sun, Stephanie; Davenport, Clemontina A.; Samad, Zainab; Rajagopal, Sudarshan
Abstract
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of adding quantitative assessments of cardiac function from echocardiography to clinical factors in predicting the outcome of patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE).
Methods: Patients with a diagnosis of acute PE, based on a positive ventilation perfusion scan or computed tomography (CT) chest angiogram, were identified using the Duke University Hospital Database. Of these, 69 had echocardiograms within 24–48 h of the diagnosis that were suitable for offline analysis. Clinical features that were analyzed included age, gender, body mass index, vital signs and comorbidities. Echocardiographic parameters that were analyzed included left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF), regional, free wall and global RV speckle-tracking strain, RV fraction area change (RVFAC), Tricuspid Annular Plane Systolic Excursion (TAPSE), pulmonary artery acceleration time (PAAT) and RV myocardial performance (Tei) index. Univariable and multivariable regression statistical analysis models were used.
Results: Out of 69 patients with acute PE, the median age was 55 and 48 % were female. The median body mass 2
index (BMI) was 27 kg/m . Twenty-nine percent of the cohort had a history of cancer, with a significant increase in cancer prevalence in non-survivors (57 % vs 29 %, p = 0.02). Clinical parameters including heart rate, respiratory rate, troponin T level, active malignancy, hypertension and COPD were higher among non-survivors when compared to survivors (p ≤ 0.05). Using univariable analysis, NYHA class III symptoms, hypoxemia on presentation, tachycardia, tachypnea, elevation in Troponin T, absence of hypertension, active malignancy and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were increased in non-survivors compared to survivors (p ≤ 0.05). In multivariable models, RV Tei Index, global and free (lateral) wall RVLS were found to be negatively associated with survival probability after adjusting for age, gender and systolic blood pressure (p ≤ 0.05).
Conclusion: The addition of echocardiographic assessment of RV function to clinical parameters improved the prediction of outcomes for patients with acute PE. Larger studies are needed to validate these findings.
Date
2016-10-28
Citation:
APA:
Dahhan, Talal, & Siddiqui, Irfan, & Tapson, Victor F., & Velazquez, Eric J., & Sun, Stephanie, & Davenport, Clemontina A., & Samad, Zainab, & Rajagopal, Sudarshan. (October 2016).
Clinical and echocardiographic predictors of mortality in acute pulmonary embolism.
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Dahhan, Talal, and Siddiqui, Irfan, and Tapson, Victor F., and Velazquez, Eric J., and Sun, Stephanie, and Davenport, Clemontina A., and Samad, Zainab, and Rajagopal, Sudarshan.
"Clinical and echocardiographic predictors of mortality in acute pulmonary embolism". .
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October 2016.
March 29, 2024.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8461.
Chicago:
Dahhan, Talal and Siddiqui, Irfan and Tapson, Victor F. and Velazquez, Eric J. and Sun, Stephanie and Davenport, Clemontina A. and Samad, Zainab and Rajagopal, Sudarshan,
"Clinical and echocardiographic predictors of mortality in acute pulmonary embolism," , no.
(October 2016),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8461 (accessed
March 29, 2024).
AMA:
Dahhan, Talal, Siddiqui, Irfan, Tapson, Victor F., Velazquez, Eric J., Sun, Stephanie, Davenport, Clemontina A., Samad, Zainab, Rajagopal, Sudarshan.
Clinical and echocardiographic predictors of mortality in acute pulmonary embolism. .
October 2016;
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.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8461. Accessed
March 29, 2024.
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