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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in a combined screening approach to individuate pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis
OBJECTIVES: The DETECT algorithm has been developed to identify SSc patients at risk for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) yielding high sensitivity but low specificity, and positive predictive value. We tested whether cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) could improve the performance of the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310101/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31637433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kez473 |
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author | Santaniello, Alessandro Casella, Rosa Vicenzi, Marco Rota, Irene Montanelli, Gaia De Santis, Maria Bellocchi, Chiara Lombardi, Federico Beretta, Lorenzo |
author_facet | Santaniello, Alessandro Casella, Rosa Vicenzi, Marco Rota, Irene Montanelli, Gaia De Santis, Maria Bellocchi, Chiara Lombardi, Federico Beretta, Lorenzo |
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description | OBJECTIVES: The DETECT algorithm has been developed to identify SSc patients at risk for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) yielding high sensitivity but low specificity, and positive predictive value. We tested whether cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) could improve the performance of the DETECT screening strategy. METHODS: Consecutive SSc patients over a 30-month period were screened with the DETECT algorithm and positive subjects were referred for CPET before the execution of right-heart catheterization. The predictive performance of CPET on top of DETECT was evaluated and internally validated via bootstrap replicates. RESULTS: Out of 314 patients, 96 satisfied the DETECT application criteria and 54 were positive. PAH was ascertained in 17 (31.5%) and pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension in 23 (42.6%) patients. Within CPET variables, the slope of the minute ventilation to carbon dioxide production relationship (VE/VCO(2) slope) had the best performance to predict PAH at right-heart catheterization [median (interquartile range) of specificity 0.778 (0.714–0.846), positive predictive value 0.636 (0.556–0.750)]; exploratory analysis on pre-capillary yielded a specificity of 0.714 (0.636–0.8) and positive predictive value of 0.714 (0.636–0.8). CONCLUSION: In association with the DETECT algorithm, CPET may be considered as a useful tool in the workup of SSc-related pulmonary hypertension. The sequential determination of the VE/VCO(2) slope in DETECT-positive subjects may reduce the number of unnecessary invasive procedures without any loss in the capability to capture PAH. This strategy had also a remarkable performance in highlighting the presence of pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension. |
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spelling | pubmed-73101012020-06-29 Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in a combined screening approach to individuate pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis Santaniello, Alessandro Casella, Rosa Vicenzi, Marco Rota, Irene Montanelli, Gaia De Santis, Maria Bellocchi, Chiara Lombardi, Federico Beretta, Lorenzo Rheumatology (Oxford) Clinical Science OBJECTIVES: The DETECT algorithm has been developed to identify SSc patients at risk for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) yielding high sensitivity but low specificity, and positive predictive value. We tested whether cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) could improve the performance of the DETECT screening strategy. METHODS: Consecutive SSc patients over a 30-month period were screened with the DETECT algorithm and positive subjects were referred for CPET before the execution of right-heart catheterization. The predictive performance of CPET on top of DETECT was evaluated and internally validated via bootstrap replicates. RESULTS: Out of 314 patients, 96 satisfied the DETECT application criteria and 54 were positive. PAH was ascertained in 17 (31.5%) and pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension in 23 (42.6%) patients. Within CPET variables, the slope of the minute ventilation to carbon dioxide production relationship (VE/VCO(2) slope) had the best performance to predict PAH at right-heart catheterization [median (interquartile range) of specificity 0.778 (0.714–0.846), positive predictive value 0.636 (0.556–0.750)]; exploratory analysis on pre-capillary yielded a specificity of 0.714 (0.636–0.8) and positive predictive value of 0.714 (0.636–0.8). CONCLUSION: In association with the DETECT algorithm, CPET may be considered as a useful tool in the workup of SSc-related pulmonary hypertension. The sequential determination of the VE/VCO(2) slope in DETECT-positive subjects may reduce the number of unnecessary invasive procedures without any loss in the capability to capture PAH. This strategy had also a remarkable performance in highlighting the presence of pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension. Oxford University Press 2020-07 2019-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7310101/ /pubmed/31637433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kez473 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Clinical Science Santaniello, Alessandro Casella, Rosa Vicenzi, Marco Rota, Irene Montanelli, Gaia De Santis, Maria Bellocchi, Chiara Lombardi, Federico Beretta, Lorenzo Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in a combined screening approach to individuate pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis |
title | Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in a combined screening approach to individuate pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis |
title_full | Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in a combined screening approach to individuate pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis |
title_fullStr | Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in a combined screening approach to individuate pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis |
title_full_unstemmed | Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in a combined screening approach to individuate pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis |
title_short | Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in a combined screening approach to individuate pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis |
title_sort | cardiopulmonary exercise testing in a combined screening approach to individuate pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis |
topic | Clinical Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310101/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31637433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kez473 |
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