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(Circulation. 1996;94:2492-2496.)
© 1996 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Coupling of Hemodynamic Measurements With Oxygen Consumption During Exercise Does Not Improve Risk Stratification in Patients With Heart Failure

Donna Mancini, MD; Stuart Katz, MD; Lisa Donchez, RN; Keith Aaronson, MD

the Division of Circulatory Physiology, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY.

Background Measurement of peak O₂ has become an accepted method to select patients for cardiac transplantation. Some investigators have suggested that the addition of exercise hemodynamic measurements can further enhance risk stratification because these measurements may identify patients with a noncardiac limitation to exercise.

Methods and Results Accordingly, we performed maximal bicycle exercise with respiratory gas analysis and hemodynamic measurements in 65 patients (47 men, 18 women) 53±10 years old (mean±SD) who underwent a transplant evaluation at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Skeletal muscle oxygenation of the vastus lateralis during exercise was assessed with near-infrared spectroscopy. Exercise hemodynamic, ventilatory, and muscle oxygenation measurements were obtained in all patients. For each subject, a linear correlation was derived between O₂ and pulmonary artery saturation (PA SaO₂). The slope of this relationship and a theoretical O_2max at a PA SaO₂ of 0% (O₂ intercept) was derived. Baseline measurements were left ventricular ejection fraction, 22±9%; pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP), 16±10 mm Hg; cardiac index (CI), 2.1±0.5 L·min^-1·m^-2; and PA SaO₂, 53±8%. The cardiac output response to exercise was categorized as normal or abnormal by comparison to the linear equation of peak O₂ versus peak cardiac output as described by Higginbotham. Exercise measurements were peak O₂, 12.1±3.0 mL·kg^-1·min^-1; O₂ intercept, 19.1±5.5 mL·kg^-1·min^-1; PCWP, 31±11 mm Hg; CI, 3.8±1.3 L·min^-1·m^-2; and PA SaO₂, 27±9%. Only 6% of patients exhibited a normal cardiac output response to exercise. Multivariate analysis was performed with peak O₂, O₂ intercept, skeletal muscle oxygenation at end exercise, and peak exercise hemodynamic variables. Only left ventricular stroke work and left ventricular stroke work index were shown to be predictive of survival.

Conclusions Addition of exercise hemodynamic measurements to noninvasive metabolic stress testing minimally improves risk prognostication in patients with severe heart failure.

Key Words: exercise • heart failure • hemodynamics

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