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Impact of Exhaled Breath Acetone in the Prognosis of Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF). One Year of Clinical Follow-up.


ABSTRACT:

Background

The identification of new biomarkers of heart failure (HF) could help in its treatment. Previously, our group studied 89 patients with HF and showed that exhaled breath acetone (EBA) is a new noninvasive biomarker of HF diagnosis. However, there is no data about the relevance of EBA as a biomarker of prognosis.

Objectives

To evaluate whether EBA could give prognostic information in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).

Methods

After breath collection and analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and by spectrophotometry, the 89 patients referred before were followed by one year. Study physicians, blind to the results of cardiac biomarker testing, ascertained vital status of each study participant at 12 months.

Results

The composite endpoint death and heart transplantation (HT) were observed in 35 patients (39.3%): 29 patients (32.6%) died and 6 (6.7%) were submitted to HT within 12 months after study enrollment. High levels of EBA (?3.7?g/L, 50th percentile) were associated with a progressively worse prognosis in 12-month follow-up (log-rank = 11.06, p = 0.001). Concentrations of EBA above 3.7?g/L increased the risk of death or HT in 3.26 times (HR = 3.26, 95%CI = 1.56-6.80, p = 0.002) within 12 months. In a multivariable cox regression model, the independent predictors of all-cause mortality were systolic blood pressure, respiratory rate and EBA levels.

Conclusions

High EBA levels could be associated to poor prognosis in HFrEF patients.

SUBMITTER: Marcondes-Braga FG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5193433 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Impact of Exhaled Breath Acetone in the Prognosis of Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF). One Year of Clinical Follow-up.

Marcondes-Braga Fabiana G FG   Batista Guilherme L GL   Gutz Ivano G R IG   Saldiva Paulo H N PH   Mangini Sandrigo S   Issa Victor S VS   Ayub-Ferreira Silvia M SM   Bocchi Edimar A EA   Pereira Alexandre Costa AC   Bacal Fernando F  

PloS one 20161228 12


<h4>Background</h4>The identification of new biomarkers of heart failure (HF) could help in its treatment. Previously, our group studied 89 patients with HF and showed that exhaled breath acetone (EBA) is a new noninvasive biomarker of HF diagnosis. However, there is no data about the relevance of EBA as a biomarker of prognosis.<h4>Objectives</h4>To evaluate whether EBA could give prognostic information in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).<h4>Methods</h4>After  ...[more]

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