Erschienen in:
05.10.2019 | Editorial
Left atrial function and NT-proANP as markers of AF progression and impaired outcome in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
verfasst von:
Timm Seewöster, Jelena Kornej
Erschienen in:
The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
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Ausgabe 1/2020
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Excerpt
Heart failure (HF) is a frequent condition associated with diverse cardiac comorbidities such as cardiac arrhythmias. One of the common underlying diseases in preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and atrial fibrillation (AF) is hypertension. Hypertension leads to left ventricular wall thickening and impaired ventricular relaxation, which adds up to left atrial (LA) dilatation contributing to electro-anatomical remodeling. Diabetes and female gender are also important risk factors in both HFpEF and AF. For example, female gender is associated with the presence of HFpEF rather than with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, which is more common in men. Also, females have a higher risk for the presence of low voltage areas (LVAs) compared to men. Diabetes is an indicator not only for worse outcome of HFpEF patients, it is also a variable included into LVAs prediction score. …