title: Two-dimensional and Doppler-echocardiographic and cardiac catheterization correlates of survival in primary pulmonary hypertension.
abstract: To determine correlates of survival in primary pulmonary hypertension, we compared 41 echocardiography-Doppler and nine catheterization parameters with outcome in 26 patients. Mean follow-up was 19.7 months in survivors; mean survival was 4.8 months in 16 nonsurvivors. Cox life-table univariate analysis correlated two echocardiographic, three Doppler, and three catheterization variables with poor survival (p less than or equal to 0.05), and chi 2 analysis ensured the best critical values: severity of pericardial effusion, heart rate of more than 87 beats/min, pulmonic flow acceleration time of less than 62 msec, tricuspid early flow deceleration (T-DEC) equal to or less than -300 cm2/sec, mitral early flow-to-atrial flow velocity ratio (M-E/A) equal to or less than 1.0, catheterization cardiac index (CI) equal to or less than 2.3 l/min/m2, mean pulmonary artery pressure of more than 61 mm Hg, and diastolic pulmonary artery pressure of more than 43 mm Hg. Multivariate life-table analysis of noninvasive variables revealed the severity of pericardial effusion to be independently significant (p = 0.006), whereas analysis of catheterization variables revealed cardiac index to be independently significant (p = 0.014). Combined multivariate analysis did not differ from the noninvasive results alone. Categorical modeling of the eight significant variables split at their critical values (present or absent) revealed M-E/A, T-DEC, and CI to be independently significant by multivariate analysis (p = 0.0014). Analysis of the five echocardiography-Doppler variables alone revealed M-E/A, T-DEC, and heart rate to be independently significant (p = 0.0016). In both cases, mortality increased with the number of critical values reached.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Cardiovascular Section, Philadelphia 19104.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Eysmann
authors.forename: H I
authors.initials: HI
authors.lastname: Palevsky
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Reichek
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hackney
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Douglas
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D000328:Adult; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004452:Echocardiography; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality*; D008297:Male; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D011379:Prognosis; D013223:Statistics as Topic