Long-term prognostic value of ultrastructural features in dilated cardiomyopathy: comparison with cardiac magnetic resonance.

ESC Heart Failure
Tsunenori SaitoWataru Shimizu

Abstract

This study aims to determine the implications associated with long-term prognosis of heart failure (HF) in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) presenting initially as decompensated HF. We stratified the phase of DCM patients without late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) based on ultrastructural changes in cardiomyocytes. Left ventricular (LV) endomyocardial biopsy was performed in 55 consecutive DCM patients with initial decompensated HF. Ultrastructural changes in cardiomyocytes detected by electron microscopy were compared with data including LGE with cardiac magnetic resonance and HF recurrence. Of the 55 DCM patients, 24 (44%) showed LGE, and 26 (47%) showed recurrence decompensated HF, while 23 patients (42%) showed autophagic vacuoles in cardiomyocytes by electron microscopy. Multivariate analysis identified atrial fibrillation [hazard ratio (HR), 3.40; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.45-7.98], haemoglobin level (HR, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.68-0.99), beta-blocker use (HR, 0.18; 95% CI, 0.05-0.74), and autophagic vacuoles (HR, 0.25; 95% CI, 0.09-0.65) as predictors of HF recurrence in the total patient population. In patients without LGE, only autophagic vacuoles were independent predictors of readmission because of HF (HR, 0.2...Continue Reading

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