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Guideline Directed Medical Therapy at Discharge and Further Uptitration Leading to Reduction in Indication for Prophylactic ICD Implantation during Protected Waiting Period

Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (LV-EF < 35%) is diagnosed in app. 11,000,000 patients worldwide. For the treatment of these patients, guideline directed medical therapy has proven to reduce mortality and rehospitalization regardless of the disease’s etiology. It is implemented to tr...

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Autores principales: Waezsada, Elias, Hutter, Julie, Kahle, Patrick, Yogarajah, Joerg, Sperzel, Johannes, Kuniss, Malte, Neumann, Thomas, Esser, Horst, Hamm, Christian, Hain, Andreas
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9605665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36294443
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11206122
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author Waezsada, Elias
Hutter, Julie
Kahle, Patrick
Yogarajah, Joerg
Sperzel, Johannes
Kuniss, Malte
Neumann, Thomas
Esser, Horst
Hamm, Christian
Hain, Andreas
author_facet Waezsada, Elias
Hutter, Julie
Kahle, Patrick
Yogarajah, Joerg
Sperzel, Johannes
Kuniss, Malte
Neumann, Thomas
Esser, Horst
Hamm, Christian
Hain, Andreas
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description Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (LV-EF < 35%) is diagnosed in app. 11,000,000 patients worldwide. For the treatment of these patients, guideline directed medical therapy has proven to reduce mortality and rehospitalization regardless of the disease’s etiology. It is implemented to treat clinical symptoms by improving the left ventricular ejection fraction. Patients with a transient risk of ventricular tachycardia and sudden cardiac death can be protected by a defibrillator vest. The defibrillator vest is capable to detect and terminate ventricular arrhythmias during Guideline Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT). It is based on the recommendations of the European society of cardiology for 3 months. Afterwards, the WCD wear time could be prolonged, or, in case of persistent low ejection fraction (LV-EF ≤ 35%), an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) should be implanted, as shown in the WEARIT-II-registry. Our goal was to evaluate the effects of GDMT on LV-recovery and reduction of ICD implantations under protection with a defibrillator vest—depending on the uptitration of GDMT. Methods: 339 consecutive patients between August 2017 and September 2020 with newly diagnosed cardiomyopathy and an EF ≤ 35% were analyzed retrospectively by chart review. All patients were protected by a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD). GDMT as recommended by the ESC started at discharge from hospital. The left ventricular ejection fraction (LV-EF) was determined by transthoracic echocardiography at week 4, 8 and at week 12 (in case of prolonged WCD wear time). Uptitration was performed after 4 and 8 weeks during patient visits. We focused on baseline medication as per GDMT and the dosage increase at week 4, 8 and 12. The aim was the uptitration to the maximum dosage tolerated by the patient. We also compared the LV-EF improvement in the group with and without uptitration of medication dosage. Results: The patient age was, on average, 63.2 years (SD ± 11.9 years). A total of 129 pts (38%) had ICM, 196 (58%) had NICM (incl 66 pts (19%) with DCM and 51 pts (15%) with Myocarditis, 79 pts (24%) with unknown origin) and 14 pts (4%) had other entities (e.g., Tachycardiomyopathy). In total, 21 pts (6%) had an LV-EF of less than 16%, 130 pts (38%) between 16–25% and 183 pts (54%) between 26–35%. GDMT started at discharge from the hospital included treatment with beta blocker for 327 pts (96.5%), ACE-inhibitors/Angiotensin/ARNI for 283 pts (83.5%) and Mineralcorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) for 334 pts (88.4%). Uptitration was performed in all groups at a rate of 82.3%, 91.1% and 81.0% after 4 weeks and 64.7%, 50.3% and 66.3% after 8 weeks, respectively. After 4 weeks, 25 pts (7.4%) and, after 8 weeks, 171 pts (50.4%) had an EF increase of 5% or more (mean 14.2%). After 4 weeks, 81 patients had an LV-EF more than 35%. A total of 169 pts had a wear time of 12 weeks and an improvement of LVEF of more than 35%. Interestingly, in our study we did not find a significant difference in LV-EF improvement between the group with no uptitration and the group with uptitration. Conclusions: Guideline-directed medical therapy under protection with a WCD from ventricular arrhythmia can reduce the need for implantation of an ICD and can lead to an improvement of ejection fraction. Interestingly, the LV-EF improvement depends on the GDMT at discharge. Current guidelines recommend an initiation of all therapy columns of GDMT (sacubitril/valsartan, ACE-inhibitor/AT1-blocker, mineralcorticoidreceptorblocker, beta blocker) at once and further uptitration to the maximal dosage (ESC Guidelines 2021). A further uptitration of all drugs of GDMT should lead to improvement of LV-EF and consequently to a reduction in ICD implantations.
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spelling pubmed-96056652022-10-27 Guideline Directed Medical Therapy at Discharge and Further Uptitration Leading to Reduction in Indication for Prophylactic ICD Implantation during Protected Waiting Period Waezsada, Elias Hutter, Julie Kahle, Patrick Yogarajah, Joerg Sperzel, Johannes Kuniss, Malte Neumann, Thomas Esser, Horst Hamm, Christian Hain, Andreas J Clin Med Article Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (LV-EF < 35%) is diagnosed in app. 11,000,000 patients worldwide. For the treatment of these patients, guideline directed medical therapy has proven to reduce mortality and rehospitalization regardless of the disease’s etiology. It is implemented to treat clinical symptoms by improving the left ventricular ejection fraction. Patients with a transient risk of ventricular tachycardia and sudden cardiac death can be protected by a defibrillator vest. The defibrillator vest is capable to detect and terminate ventricular arrhythmias during Guideline Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT). It is based on the recommendations of the European society of cardiology for 3 months. Afterwards, the WCD wear time could be prolonged, or, in case of persistent low ejection fraction (LV-EF ≤ 35%), an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) should be implanted, as shown in the WEARIT-II-registry. Our goal was to evaluate the effects of GDMT on LV-recovery and reduction of ICD implantations under protection with a defibrillator vest—depending on the uptitration of GDMT. Methods: 339 consecutive patients between August 2017 and September 2020 with newly diagnosed cardiomyopathy and an EF ≤ 35% were analyzed retrospectively by chart review. All patients were protected by a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD). GDMT as recommended by the ESC started at discharge from hospital. The left ventricular ejection fraction (LV-EF) was determined by transthoracic echocardiography at week 4, 8 and at week 12 (in case of prolonged WCD wear time). Uptitration was performed after 4 and 8 weeks during patient visits. We focused on baseline medication as per GDMT and the dosage increase at week 4, 8 and 12. The aim was the uptitration to the maximum dosage tolerated by the patient. We also compared the LV-EF improvement in the group with and without uptitration of medication dosage. Results: The patient age was, on average, 63.2 years (SD ± 11.9 years). A total of 129 pts (38%) had ICM, 196 (58%) had NICM (incl 66 pts (19%) with DCM and 51 pts (15%) with Myocarditis, 79 pts (24%) with unknown origin) and 14 pts (4%) had other entities (e.g., Tachycardiomyopathy). In total, 21 pts (6%) had an LV-EF of less than 16%, 130 pts (38%) between 16–25% and 183 pts (54%) between 26–35%. GDMT started at discharge from the hospital included treatment with beta blocker for 327 pts (96.5%), ACE-inhibitors/Angiotensin/ARNI for 283 pts (83.5%) and Mineralcorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) for 334 pts (88.4%). Uptitration was performed in all groups at a rate of 82.3%, 91.1% and 81.0% after 4 weeks and 64.7%, 50.3% and 66.3% after 8 weeks, respectively. After 4 weeks, 25 pts (7.4%) and, after 8 weeks, 171 pts (50.4%) had an EF increase of 5% or more (mean 14.2%). After 4 weeks, 81 patients had an LV-EF more than 35%. A total of 169 pts had a wear time of 12 weeks and an improvement of LVEF of more than 35%. Interestingly, in our study we did not find a significant difference in LV-EF improvement between the group with no uptitration and the group with uptitration. Conclusions: Guideline-directed medical therapy under protection with a WCD from ventricular arrhythmia can reduce the need for implantation of an ICD and can lead to an improvement of ejection fraction. Interestingly, the LV-EF improvement depends on the GDMT at discharge. Current guidelines recommend an initiation of all therapy columns of GDMT (sacubitril/valsartan, ACE-inhibitor/AT1-blocker, mineralcorticoidreceptorblocker, beta blocker) at once and further uptitration to the maximal dosage (ESC Guidelines 2021). A further uptitration of all drugs of GDMT should lead to improvement of LV-EF and consequently to a reduction in ICD implantations. MDPI 2022-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9605665/ /pubmed/36294443 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11206122 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Waezsada, Elias
Hutter, Julie
Kahle, Patrick
Yogarajah, Joerg
Sperzel, Johannes
Kuniss, Malte
Neumann, Thomas
Esser, Horst
Hamm, Christian
Hain, Andreas
Guideline Directed Medical Therapy at Discharge and Further Uptitration Leading to Reduction in Indication for Prophylactic ICD Implantation during Protected Waiting Period
title Guideline Directed Medical Therapy at Discharge and Further Uptitration Leading to Reduction in Indication for Prophylactic ICD Implantation during Protected Waiting Period
title_full Guideline Directed Medical Therapy at Discharge and Further Uptitration Leading to Reduction in Indication for Prophylactic ICD Implantation during Protected Waiting Period
title_fullStr Guideline Directed Medical Therapy at Discharge and Further Uptitration Leading to Reduction in Indication for Prophylactic ICD Implantation during Protected Waiting Period
title_full_unstemmed Guideline Directed Medical Therapy at Discharge and Further Uptitration Leading to Reduction in Indication for Prophylactic ICD Implantation during Protected Waiting Period
title_short Guideline Directed Medical Therapy at Discharge and Further Uptitration Leading to Reduction in Indication for Prophylactic ICD Implantation during Protected Waiting Period
title_sort guideline directed medical therapy at discharge and further uptitration leading to reduction in indication for prophylactic icd implantation during protected waiting period
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9605665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36294443
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11206122
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