scholarly journals Possibilities of modern biomarkers for assessing the risk of developing ventricular tachyarrhythmias and sudden cardiac death in patients with chronic heart failure

Kardiologiia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
A. Zh. Gasparyan ◽  
N. B. Shlevkov ◽  
A. A. Skvortsov

Current biomarkers allow diagnosing a wide array of pathological processes and evaluating effects of therapies and prognosis for cardiological patients. This review focuses on a possibility of using N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), soluble suppressor of tumorigenicity 2 (sST2), galectin-3, and other biomarkers in patients with chronic heart failure for evaluating the risk of life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
V.O. Ruzhanskaya ◽  
V.G Sivak ◽  
O.O. Sakovych ◽  
V.M. Zhebel

One of the main etiological causes of development of heart failure is essential hypertension. The diagnosis of heart failure is usually made on the basis of comprehensive analysis of medical history, sonographic and biochemical examination. Normal ejection fraction does not exclude dyspnea of cardiac origin. Objective: to determine the role of galectin-3 as a marker of structural and functional changes of the myocardium in males with essential hypertension and CHF, carriers of polymorphic AT1R genes, residents of Podillya region of Ukraine. In this contingent, the surveyed were studied сoncentrations of galectin-3 and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), parameters of central and systemic hemodynamics in carriers of polymorphic variants of angiotensin II type 1 receptor gene (АТ1R) - individuals with no cardiovascular pathology (n=79), male patients with II-III degree essential hypertension (EH) and hypertrophy of the myocardium (n=62), and essential hypertension (n=50) complicated by chronic heart failure (CHF), residents of Podillya region of Ukraine, were studied. Genotyping of АТ1R gene was performed using polymerase chain reaction. Galectin-3 and brain natriuretic peptide levels were determined by enzyme immunoassay. Structural and functional parameters of myocardium were assessed by ultrasound using the apparatus “RADMIR ULTIMARA”. Statistical analysis of the results obtained was done on personal computer using standard statistical package Statistica 10.0. The data are represented as mean values (M) and standard deviations (±m). Carriers of C allele of angiotensin II type 1 receptor gene were found to be dominating among the males with essential hypertension and resultant myocardial hypertrophy. Concentrations of galectin-3 and brain natriuretic peptide were significantly higher in men with essential hypertension and essential hypertension associated with chronic heart failure, as compared to those with no cardiovascular diseases, as well as the carriers of C allele of angiotensin II type 1 receptor gene. It was found that concentrations of study biomarkers were higher in individuals with severe and eccentric left ventricular hypertrophy, as well as in those with decreased ejection fraction of the left ventricle. Therefore, those biomarkers can be used in complex diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy in essential hypertension and the development of chronic heart failure in such patients.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-168
Author(s):  
Mehrdad Sheikhvatan ◽  
Zhaleh Ataei ◽  
Aigin Heydari ◽  
Aryan Zahergivar

Context: The role of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT pro-BNP) has been understood as an important and critical biomarker in the diagnosis and predicting poor outcome of cardiac dysfunction. Objectives: We aimed to systematically review the papers on the value of NT pro-BNP in prediction of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients. Data Sources: This study was based on the Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) study reporting system. Study Selection: During the deep searches using the keywords, 67 studies were initially considered for primary assessment. Of those, 12 were completely matched with the study endpoint. In final, six were excluded because of unavailability of full texts or acquired data and thus six studies were finally analyzed. Data Extraction: Two researchers independently used the key words "chronic heart failure, B-type natriuretic peptide, sudden cardiac death" and their combination and searched the national and international databases including Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, Web of Science, Springer, and the Google Scholar search engine. Results: The pooled prevalence of SCD in CHF patients was found to be 6.9% (95% CI: 5.2% to 9.0%). The statistical heterogeneity was high with an I2 of 84.488. Abnormal elevated level of NT pro-BNP was significantly associated with the increased risk for SCD with a hazard ratio of 4.2 (95% CI: 2.2 to 8.7). Conclusion: Measuring the serum level of NT pro-BNP in CHF patients can be valuable to predict long-term SCD. In this regard, significant elevation of this biomarker may be associated with the four-fold risk of SCD in such patients.


Heart ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. heartjnl-2020-317701
Author(s):  
Guixin Wu ◽  
Jie Liu ◽  
Shuiyun Wang ◽  
Shiqin Yu ◽  
Ce Zhang ◽  
...  

ObjectiveElevated levels of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) are associated with heart failure-related death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), but the relationship between NT-proBNP level and sudden cardiac death (SCD) in HCM remains undefined.MethodsThe study prospectively enrolled 977 unrelated patients with HCM with available NT-proBNP results who were prospectively enrolled and followed for 3.0±2.1 years. The Harrell’s C-statistic under the receiver operating characteristic curve was calculated to evaluate discrimination performance. A combination model was constructed by adding NT-proBNP tertiles to the HCM Risk-SCD model. The correlation between log NT-proBNP level and cardiac fibrosis as measured by late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) or Masson’s staining was analysed.ResultsDuring follow-up, 29 patients had SCD. Increased log NT-proBNP levels were associated with an increased risk of SCD events (adjusted HR 22.27, 95% CI 10.93 to 65.63, p<0.001). The C-statistic of NT-proBNP in predicting SCD events was 0.80 (p<0.001). The combined model significantly improved the predictive efficiency of the HCM Risk-SCD model from 0.72 to 0.81 (p<0.05), with a relative integrated discrimination improvement of 0.002 (p<0.001) and net reclassification improvement of 0.67 (p<0.001). Furthermore, log NT-proBNP levels were significantly correlated with cardiac fibrosis as detected either by LGE (r=0.257, p<0.001) or by Masson’s trichrome staining in the myocardium (r=0.198, p<0.05).ConclusionNT-proBNP is an independent predictor of SCD in patients with HCM and may help with risk stratification of this disease.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyun Yu ◽  
Juanhui Pei ◽  
Xiaoyan Liu ◽  
Jingzhou Chen ◽  
Xian Li ◽  
...  

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether CC-AAbs levels could predict prognosis in CHF patients. A total of 2096 patients with CHF (841 DCM patients and 1255 ICM patients) and 834 control subjects were recruited. CC-AAbs were detected and the relationship between CC-AAbs and patient prognosis was analyzed. During a median follow-up time of 52 months, there were 578 deaths. Of these, sudden cardiac death (SCD) occurred in 102 cases of DCM and 121 cases of ICM. The presence of CC-AAbs in patients was significantly higher than that of controls (bothP<0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that positive CC-AAbs could predict SCD (HR 3.191, 95% CI 1.598–6.369 for DCM; HR 2.805, 95% CI 1.488–5.288 for ICM) and all-cause mortality (HR 1.733, 95% CI 1.042–2.883 for DCM; HR 2.219, 95% CI 1.461–3.371 for ICM) in CHF patients. A significant association between CC-AAbs and non-SCD (NSCD) was found in ICM patients (HR = 1.887, 95% CI 1.081–3.293). Our results demonstrated that the presence of CC-AAbs was higher in CHF patients versus controls and corresponds to a higher incidence of all-cause death and SCD. Positive CC-AAbs may serve as an independent predictor for SCD and all-cause death in these patients.


2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. S141
Author(s):  
Nobuyuki Shiba ◽  
Kotaro Nochioka ◽  
Jun Watanabe ◽  
Tomohiro Tada ◽  
Haruka Kohno ◽  
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