Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure during exercise and long-term mortality in patients with suspected heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

• Published in: European heart journal Vol. 35; no. 44; pp. 3103 - 3112
• Main Authors: Dorfs, Stephan, Zeh, Wolfgang, Hochholzer, Willibald, Jander, Nikolaus, Kienzle, Rolf-Peter, Pieske, Burkert, Neumann, Franz Josef
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 21.11.2014
• Subjects: Aged; Blood Pressure - physiology; Cardiac Catheterization; Exercise - physiology; Female; Heart Failure - mortality; Heart Failure - physiopathology; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Middle Aged; Pulmonary Wedge Pressure - physiology; Retrospective Studies; ROC Curve; Stroke Volume - physiology; Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; Exercise haemodynamics; Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure; Mortality

In patients with suspected heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), invasive exercise testing may be considered when measurements at rest are inconclusive. However, the prognostic impact of invasive exercise testing is uncertain, so far. We retrospectively analysed mortality in 355 pa...