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  • Left Heart Disease Phenotyp...
    Toma, Matteo; Miceli, Roberta; Bonsante, Edoardo; Colombo, Davide; Confalonieri, Marco; Garascia, Andrea; Ghio, Stefano; Lattanzio, Mariangela; Lombardi, Carlo Maria; Paciocco, Giuseppe; Piccinino, Cristina; Rota, Irene; Santolamazza, Caterina; Scelsi, Laura; Scuri, Piermario; Stolfo, Davide; Vincenzi, Antonella; Volpiano, Lorenzo; Vicenzi, Marco; Ameri, Pietro

    Journal of clinical medicine, 11/2022, Volume: 11, Issue: 23
    Journal Article

    Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in the elderly is often associated with left heart disease (LHD), prompting concerns about the use of pulmonary vasodilators. The PATRIARCA registry enrolled ≥70 year-old PAH or chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) patients at 11 Italian centers from 1 December 2019 through 15 September 2022. After excluding those with CTEPH, post-capillary PH at the diagnostic right heart catheterization (RHC), and/or incomplete data, 23 (33%) of a total of 69 subjects met the criteria proposed in the AMBITION trial to suspect LHD. Diabetes 9 (39%) vs. 6 (13%), p = 0.01 and chronic kidney disease 14 (61%) vs. 12 (26%), p = 0.003 were more common, and the last RHC pulmonary artery wedge pressure 14 ± 5 vs. 10 ± 3 mmHg, p < 0.001 was higher and pulmonary vascular resistance 5.56 ± 3.31 vs. 8.30 ± 4.80, p = 0.02 was lower in LHD than non-LHD patients. However, PAH therapy was similar, with 13 (57%) and 23 (50%) subjects, respectively, taking two oral drugs. PAH medication patterns remained comparable between LHD and non-LHD patients also when the former 37, 54% were identified by atrial fibrillation and echocardiographic features of LHD, in addition to the AMBITION criteria. In this real-world snapshot, elderly PAH patients were treated with pulmonary vasodilators, including combinations, despite a remarkable prevalence of a LHD phenotype.