A Novel Noninvasive Method to Assess Optimal Diuresis in Patients With Heart Failure
A Novel Noninvasive Method to Assess Optimal Diuresis in Patients With Heart Failure
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一种评估心力衰竭患者最佳利尿情况的新型无创方法
DOI:
10.1016/j.jchf.2018.10.021
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发表时间:
2019
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13
通讯作者:
Geng Qingshan
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作者:
Ma Huan;Huang Daozheng;Xue Ling;Wang Yu;Geng Qingshan
It was with great interest that we read the cohort clinical trial by Strobeck et al.(1). The authors clearly show that using volume-guided heart failure (HF) therapy can reduce death and rehospitalization more than propensity-matched controls can. Volumeguided HF therapy targeted a total blood volume (TBV) threshold ranging from 6% to 8% above patient-specific normative values. TBV values were measured by using an iodine-131-labeled albumin indicator dilution technique, which is the gold standard for assessing TBV. Using that method, the authors found only 37% of patients, who were thought to have volume overload by clinical assessment, were actually hypervolemic according to blood volume analysis (BVA). Due to fluid redistribution during HF, some patients may present with HF signs and symptoms but without a change in TBV. BVA-guided treatment may overlook consideration of the shifts between the venous reservoir and the effective circulating blood volume. Additionally, the method is expensive and invasive, there are no consistent or standardized treatment protocol (s) described, and BVA reproducibility is still questionable. We propose a similar but noninvasive and simple method to assess optimal TBV in patients with HF indirectly. The passive leg-raising test (PLRT) may help accurately predict a patient’s volume responsiveness (2, 3). The PLRT is a reversible “preload challenge” of approximately 300 ml of blood (4) that can be repeated as frequently as required without infusing a drop of fluid. If the patient’s stroke volume increases by more than 10% during the test, the patient is considered to be volume reactive and can be given fluid replacement therapy to increase stroke volume