Cardiac remodelling Part 2: clinical, imaging and laboratory findings: a review from the Biomarkers Working Group of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC

Alberto Aimo, Giuseppe Vergaro, Arantxa González, Andrea Barison, Josep Lupón, Victoria Delgado, A Mark Richards, Rudolf A de Boer, Thomas Thum, Henrike Arfsten, Martin Hülsmann, Inês Falcao-Pires, Javier Díez, Roger Sy Foo, Mark Yan Yee Chan, George C Anene-Nzelu, Magdy Abdelhamid, Stamatis Adamopoulos, Stefan D Anker, Yuri BelenkovTuvia B Gal, Alain Cohen-Solal, Michael Böhm, Ovidiu Chioncel, Ewa A Jankowska, Finn Gustafsson, Loreena Hill, Tiny Jaarsma, James L Januzzi, Pardeep Jhund, Yuri Lopatin, Lars H Lund, Marco Metra, Davor Milicic, Brenda Moura, Christian Mueller, Wilfried Mullens, Julio Núñez, Massimo F Piepoli, Amina Rakisheva, Arsen Ristic, Patrick Rossignol, Gianluigi Savarese, Carlo G Tocchetti, Sophie van Linthout, Maurizio Volterrani, Petar Seferovic, Giuseppe Rosano, Andrew Js Coats, Michele Emdin, Antoni Bayes-Genis

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Abstract

In patients with heart failure (HF), the beneficial effects of drug and device therapies counteract to some extent ongoing cardiac damage. According to the net balance between these two factors, cardiac geometry and function may improve (reverse remodelling, RR) and even completely normalize (remission), or vice versa progressively deteriorate (adverse remodelling, AR). RR or remission predict a better prognosis, while AR has been associated with worsening clinical status and outcomes. The remodelling process ultimately involves all cardiac chambers, but has been traditionally evaluated in terms of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction. This is the second part of a review paper by the Biomarker Study Group of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology dedicated to ventricular remodelling. This document examines the proposed criteria to diagnose RR and AR, their prevalence and prognostic value, and the variables predicting remodelling in patients managed according to current guidelines. Much attention will be devoted to RR in patients with HFrEF because most studies on cardiac remodelling focused on this setting.

Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean Journal of Heart Failure
Volume24
Issue number6
Early online date16 May 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01 Jun 2022

Keywords

  • therapies
  • clinical
  • biomarkers
  • imaging
  • remodelling
  • predictors
  • ejection fraction
  • heart failure

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