COMPARISON OF CLINICAL FINDINGS IN IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY IN WOMEN VERSUS MEN
COMPARISON OF CLINICAL FINDINGS IN IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY IN WOMEN VERSUS MEN
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DOI:
10.1016/0002-9149(93)90355-g
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发表时间:
1993-09-01
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
CAMERINI, F
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作者:
DEMARIA, R;GAVAZZI, A;CAMERINI, F
Clinical and laboratory findings were compared in 65 women and 238 men with invasively documented idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Women had more severe symptoms (New York Heart Association class greater-than-or-equal-to III in 48 vs 39%; p < 0.05), presented more frequently with heart failure signs (63 vs 41%; p < 0.01), and had a higher cardiothoracic ratio (0.56 +/- 0.06 vs 0.53 +/- 0.06; p < 0.05) and higher frequency of left bundle branch block (41 vs 29%; p < 0.05). Echocardiographic measurements in women showed significantly greater left ventricular (LV) end-diastolic (42 +/- 7 vs 39 +/- 6 mm/m2; p < 0.0001) and end-systolic (36 +/- 7 vs 33 +/- 6 mm/m2; p < 0.001) diameters, and mean myocardial thickness (11 +/- 2 vs 10 +/- 2 mm; p < 0.05). Exercise duration was shorter in women than in men (7 +/-3 vs 10 +/- 4 minutes; p < 0.001). After 18 +/- 16 months, 9 women and 27 men died, and 7 and 17, respectively, received transplants. Transplant-free survival was not significantly different according to gender. By Cox multivariate analysis, LV ejection fraction was a significant independent predictor of cardiac death or heart transplantation in both sexes (p < 0.05) in men, and p < 0.005 in women), together with left atrial diameter index (p < 0.01) in women, and mean pulmonary artery pressure (p