Objectives: To investigate by standard echocardiography and pulsed-tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) the course of systemic sclerosis (SSc) heart disease and its correlation with epidemiological, clinical, and serological features of the disease and drug treatment. METHODS: A total of 74 consecutive patients (69 females, between the ages of 19 and 71 years, and disease duration 1-43 years) and 71 controls underwent cardiac assessment at baseline and at 3-year follow-up. RESULTS: At baseline, compared to controls, patients showed post-Bonferroni correction, impaired left (LV) and right ventricular (RV) diastolic function (Em/Am 0.85 ± 0.4 vs 1.5 ± 0.7, p = 0.0003; Et/At 0.9 ± 0.3 vs 1.3 ± 0.4, p = 0.0003), subtle LV and RV systolic dysfunction (Sm 13.7 ± 2.7 vs 15.4 ± 3.2cm/s, p = 0.031; St < 11.5cm/s in 16/74 patients vs 0 controls, p = 0.0031), and higher pulmonary artery systolic pressure (sPAP) (26.1 ± 6.0 vs 24.1 ± 5.1, p = 0.040). At 3-year follow-up, SSc patients showed a further deterioration of biventricular diastolic and systolic function and a further sPAP increase. At multiple regression analysis of baseline data, Em/Am < 1 was detected in 55/74 patients vs 25/71 controls (p < 0.0001) and was associated with age (p = 0.030); Et/At < 1 was detected in 16/74 patients vs 7/71 controls (p < 0.0001), was associated with NYHA class ≥ II (p = 0.033), late capillaroscopic pattern (p = 0.029), and a baseline cardiac Medsger severity score ≥ 1 (p = 0.029). TDI evidence of new abnormalities in RV and/or LV diastolic function was associated with a baseline cardiac Medsger severity score ≥ 1 (p = 0.01). Neither diastolic or systolic abnormalities nor sPAP changes correlated with treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Our study confirms that SSc patients exhibit biventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction and increased sPAP and reveals further deterioration at 3-year follow-up.

Tissue Doppler imaging in systemic sclerosis: A 3-year longitudinal study.

CUOMO, Giovanna;VETTORI, Serena;CALABRO', Raffaele;VALENTINI, Gabriele
2014

Abstract

Objectives: To investigate by standard echocardiography and pulsed-tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) the course of systemic sclerosis (SSc) heart disease and its correlation with epidemiological, clinical, and serological features of the disease and drug treatment. METHODS: A total of 74 consecutive patients (69 females, between the ages of 19 and 71 years, and disease duration 1-43 years) and 71 controls underwent cardiac assessment at baseline and at 3-year follow-up. RESULTS: At baseline, compared to controls, patients showed post-Bonferroni correction, impaired left (LV) and right ventricular (RV) diastolic function (Em/Am 0.85 ± 0.4 vs 1.5 ± 0.7, p = 0.0003; Et/At 0.9 ± 0.3 vs 1.3 ± 0.4, p = 0.0003), subtle LV and RV systolic dysfunction (Sm 13.7 ± 2.7 vs 15.4 ± 3.2cm/s, p = 0.031; St < 11.5cm/s in 16/74 patients vs 0 controls, p = 0.0031), and higher pulmonary artery systolic pressure (sPAP) (26.1 ± 6.0 vs 24.1 ± 5.1, p = 0.040). At 3-year follow-up, SSc patients showed a further deterioration of biventricular diastolic and systolic function and a further sPAP increase. At multiple regression analysis of baseline data, Em/Am < 1 was detected in 55/74 patients vs 25/71 controls (p < 0.0001) and was associated with age (p = 0.030); Et/At < 1 was detected in 16/74 patients vs 7/71 controls (p < 0.0001), was associated with NYHA class ≥ II (p = 0.033), late capillaroscopic pattern (p = 0.029), and a baseline cardiac Medsger severity score ≥ 1 (p = 0.029). TDI evidence of new abnormalities in RV and/or LV diastolic function was associated with a baseline cardiac Medsger severity score ≥ 1 (p = 0.01). Neither diastolic or systolic abnormalities nor sPAP changes correlated with treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Our study confirms that SSc patients exhibit biventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction and increased sPAP and reveals further deterioration at 3-year follow-up.
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