Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-11-25DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011629
João Pedro Ferreira, Bertram Pitt, Faiez Zannad
{"title":"Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists in Heart Failure: An Update.","authors":"João Pedro Ferreira, Bertram Pitt, Faiez Zannad","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011629","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011629","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spironolactone, a steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA), has been used to treat patients with heart failure (HF) for more than half a century. Spironolactone improved outcomes in patients with severely symptomatic HF with reduced ejection fraction, and later, eplerenone expanded the benefits to patients with mildly symptomatic HF with reduced ejection fraction and myocardial infarction complicated by HF. Spironolactone reduced HF events in some patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction, but the results were not generalizable to all patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction. More recently, the nonsteroidal MRA finerenone improved the HF outcomes of patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction, expanding the benefits previously seen among patients with diabetes and albuminuric chronic kidney disease. The use of MRAs has been limited due to excessive concern about hyperkalemia. Education about the limited true risk associated with hyperkalemia, and about how to predict, prevent, and manage hyperkalemia, may lead to wider acceptability and use of these agents. Several ongoing trials are testing steroidal and nonsteroidal MRAs in HF populations. In this review, we perform a critical appraisal of MRA use in HF populations and point toward future directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e011629"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142709501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012135
Yousuf Razvi, Daniel P Judge, Ana Martinez-Naharro, Adam Ioannou, Lucia Venneri, Rishi Patel, Julian D Gillmore, Peter Kellman, Laura Edwards, Jorg Taubel, Jing Du, Jean-François Tamby, Adam Castaño, Suresh Siddhanti, Leonid Katz, Jonathan C Fox, Marianna Fontana
{"title":"Effect of Acoramidis on Myocardial Structure and Function in Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy: Insights From the ATTRibute-CM Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Substudy.","authors":"Yousuf Razvi, Daniel P Judge, Ana Martinez-Naharro, Adam Ioannou, Lucia Venneri, Rishi Patel, Julian D Gillmore, Peter Kellman, Laura Edwards, Jorg Taubel, Jing Du, Jean-François Tamby, Adam Castaño, Suresh Siddhanti, Leonid Katz, Jonathan C Fox, Marianna Fontana","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012135","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e012135"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11643112/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142516312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-11-25DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011592
Jason F Goldberg, Xin Tian, Ann Bon, Yifei Xu, Eleanor Gerhard, Ruth Brower, Moon Kyoo Jang, Hyesik Kong, Temesgen E Andargie, Woojin Park, Samer S Najjar, Inna Tchoukina, Keyur B Shah, Steven Hsu, Maria E Rodrigo, Charles Marboe, Gerald J Berry, Hannah A Valantine, Palak Shah, Sean Agbor-Enoh
{"title":"Redefining Cardiac Antibody-Mediated Rejection With Donor-Specific Antibodies and Graft Dysfunction.","authors":"Jason F Goldberg, Xin Tian, Ann Bon, Yifei Xu, Eleanor Gerhard, Ruth Brower, Moon Kyoo Jang, Hyesik Kong, Temesgen E Andargie, Woojin Park, Samer S Najjar, Inna Tchoukina, Keyur B Shah, Steven Hsu, Maria E Rodrigo, Charles Marboe, Gerald J Berry, Hannah A Valantine, Palak Shah, Sean Agbor-Enoh","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011592","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011592","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Heart transplant recipients with donor-specific antibodies (DSAs) have an increased risk for antibody-mediated rejection. However, many patients with graft dysfunction and DSA do not have evidence of antibody-mediated rejection by endomyocardial biopsy (EMB).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants from this prospective, multicenter study underwent serial EMB, echocardiogram, DSA, and donor-derived cell-free DNA evaluations. Outcomes were defined as pAMR+ (pAMR≥1) or DSA+/left ventricle (LV) dysfunction (DSA presence+LVEF drop ≥10% to an LVEF≤50%). Cox regression evaluated the association between antibody-mediated rejection categories and death or sustained (for 3 months) reduction of LVEF to <50%.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Two hundred sixteen patients (29% women, 39% Black race, median age 55 [interquartile range, 47-62] years) had 1488 EMB, 2792 DSA, 1821 echocardiograms, and 1190 donor-derived cell-free DNA evaluations. DSAs were present in 86 patients (40%). Fourteen patients had isolated pAMR+ episodes and 8 patients had isolated DSA+/LV dysfunction episodes; 2 patients had pAMR+ and then subsequently DSA+/LV dysfunction with pAMR+. Median %dd-cfDNA was significantly higher at diagnosis of pAMR+ (0.63% [interquartile range, 0.23-2.0]; <i>P</i>=0.0002), or DSA+/LV dysfunction (0.40% [interquartile range, 0.36-1.24]; <i>P</i><0.0001), compared with patients without these outcomes (0.01% [interquartile range, 0.0001-0.10]). Both pAMR+ and DSA+/LV dysfunction were associated with long-term clinical outcome of death (n=18) or prolonged LV dysfunction (n=10): pAMR+ (hazard ratio, 2.8 [95% CI, 1.03-7.4]; <i>P</i>=0.043); DSA+/LV dysfunction (hazard ratio, 26.2 [95% CI, 9.6-71.3]; <i>P</i><0.001); composite of both definitions (hazard ratio, 6.5 [95% CI, 2.9-14.3]; <i>P</i><0.001). Patients who developed pAMR+ or DSA+/LV dysfunction within the first 6 months of transplant were more likely to die within 3 years posttransplant (hazard ratio, 3.9 [95% CI, 1.03-14.6]; <i>P</i>=0.031).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Expanding the characterization of antibody-mediated rejection to include patients with DSA and concurrent allograft dysfunction identified DSA+ patients at risk for death and prolonged LV dysfunction.</p>","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e011592"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142709452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011980
Senthil Selvaraj, Shachi Patel, Andrew J Sauer, Robert W McGarrah, Philip Jones, Lydia Coulter Kwee, Sheryl L Windsor, Olga Ilkayeva, Michael J Muehlbauer, Christopher B Newgard, Barry A Borlaug, Dalane W Kitzman, Sanjiv J Shah, Kenneth B Margulies, Mansoor Husain, Silvio E Inzucchi, Darren K McGuire, David E Lanfear, Ali Javaheri, Guillermo Umpierrez, Robert J Mentz, Kavita Sharma, Mikhail N Kosiborod, Svati H Shah
{"title":"Metabolic Effects of the SGLT2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin in Heart Failure Across the Spectrum of Ejection Fraction.","authors":"Senthil Selvaraj, Shachi Patel, Andrew J Sauer, Robert W McGarrah, Philip Jones, Lydia Coulter Kwee, Sheryl L Windsor, Olga Ilkayeva, Michael J Muehlbauer, Christopher B Newgard, Barry A Borlaug, Dalane W Kitzman, Sanjiv J Shah, Kenneth B Margulies, Mansoor Husain, Silvio E Inzucchi, Darren K McGuire, David E Lanfear, Ali Javaheri, Guillermo Umpierrez, Robert J Mentz, Kavita Sharma, Mikhail N Kosiborod, Svati H Shah","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011980","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011980","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Mechanisms of benefit with SGLT2is (sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors) in heart failure (HF) remain incompletely characterized. Dapagliflozin alters ketone and fatty acid metabolism in HF with reduced ejection fraction though similar effects have not been observed in HF with preserved ejection fraction. We explore whether metabolic effects of SGLT2is vary across the left ventricular ejection fraction spectrum and their relationship with cardiometabolic end points in 2 randomized trials of dapagliflozin in HF.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Metabolomic profiling of 61 metabolites was performed in 527 participants from DEFINE-HF (Dapagliflozin Effects on Biomarkers, Symptoms and Functional Status in Patients With HF With Reduced Ejection Fraction) and PRESERVED-HF (Dapagliflozin in PRESERVED Ejection Fraction HF; 12-week, placebo-controlled trials of dapagliflozin in HF with reduced ejection fraction and HF with preserved ejection fraction, respectively). Linear regression was used to assess changes in principal components analysis-defined metabolite factors with treatment from baseline to 12 weeks, as well as the relationship between changes in metabolite clusters and HF-related end points.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean age was 66±11 years, 43% were female, and 33% were self-identified as Black. Two principal components analysis-derived metabolite factors (which were comprised of ketone and short-/medium-chain acylcarnitines) increased with dapagliflozin compared with placebo. Ketosis (defined as 3-hydroxybutyrate >500 μM) was achieved in 4.5% with dapagliflozin versus 1.2% with placebo (<i>P</i>=0.03). There were no appreciable treatment effects on amino acids, including branched-chain amino acids. Increases in several acylcarnitines were consistent across LVEF (<i>P</i><sub>interaction</sub>>0.10), whereas the ketogenic effect diminished at higher LVEF (<i>P</i><sub>interaction</sub>=0.01 for 3-hydroxybutyrate). Increases in metabolites reflecting mitochondrial dysfunction (particularly long-chain acylcarnitines) and aromatic amino acids and decreases in branched-chain amino acids were associated with worse HF-related outcomes in the overall cohort, with consistency across treatment and LVEF.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>SGLT2is demonstrate common (fatty acid) and distinct (ketogenic) metabolic signatures across the LVEF spectrum. Changes in key pathways related to fatty acid and amino acid metabolism are associated with HF-related end points and may serve as therapeutic targets across HF subtypes.</p><p><strong>Registration: </strong>URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov; Unique Identifiers: NCT03030235 and NCT02653482.</p>","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e011980"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11634023/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142459361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-11-05DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.123.011304
Andrew T Nguyen, Gerald J Berry, Ronald M Witteles
{"title":"The Great Masquerader: Diagnosing Cardiac Sarcoidosis in the Era of Advanced Cardiac Imaging.","authors":"Andrew T Nguyen, Gerald J Berry, Ronald M Witteles","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.123.011304","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.123.011304","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e011304"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142575461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012381
Amanda Brademeyer, Zachary L Cox
{"title":"Search for Biomarkers to Discern Risk in Worsening Renal Function During Acute Heart Failure.","authors":"Amanda Brademeyer, Zachary L Cox","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012381","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e012381"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142459364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012373
Henrik Wiggers
{"title":"SGLT2 Inhibitors and Their Effect on Metabolism in Patients With Heart Failure.","authors":"Henrik Wiggers","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012373","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012373","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e012373"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142459365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.123.011751
Stephen Duff, Nicholas Wettersten, Yu Horiuchi, Dirk J van Veldhuisen, Sagar Raturi, Ruairi Irwin, Jean Maxime Côté, Alan Maisel, Joachim H Ix, Patrick T Murray
{"title":"Absence of Kidney Tubular Injury in Patients With Acute Heart Failure With Acute Kidney Injury.","authors":"Stephen Duff, Nicholas Wettersten, Yu Horiuchi, Dirk J van Veldhuisen, Sagar Raturi, Ruairi Irwin, Jean Maxime Côté, Alan Maisel, Joachim H Ix, Patrick T Murray","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.123.011751","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.123.011751","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Worsening renal function (WRF) is common in hospitalized patients being treated for acute heart failure. However, discriminating clinically significant WRF remains challenging. In patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, we evaluated if blood and urine biomarkers of cardiac and kidney dysfunction were associated with adverse outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We identified 175 of 927 participants in the AKINESIS study (Acute Kidney Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin Evaluation of Symptomatic Heart Failure Study) who met criteria for stage 1 or 2 Kidney Disease: Improvement Global Outcomes acute kidney injury during the first 3 days of hospitalization. We measured 24 blood and urine biomarkers from specimens collected within 24 hours of meeting acute kidney injury criteria. The primary composite outcome consisted of worsening WRF (higher acute kidney injury stage), need for dialysis, or death at 30 days. Biomarkers' association with the composite outcome was assessed with logistic regression by tertiles and area under the curve (AUC).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 175 participants, 32 (18%) developed the primary composite outcome. Only history of chronic kidney disease was significantly different between those with and without the composite outcome. The highest tertile of plasma Gal-3 (galectin-3) and urine epidermal growth factor were associated with increased odds of the composite outcome compared with the lowest tertile in unadjusted analyses. After adjusting for serum creatinine, systolic blood pressure, and blood urea nitrogen, only the highest tertile of Gal-3 was associated with greater odds of the composite outcome (odds ratio, 4.6 [95% CI, 1.4-16.0). Gal-3 had the highest AUC (0.70 [95% CI, 0.58-0.82]), while epidermal growth factor had a lower AUC (0.63 [95% CI, 0.53-0.74]). Notably, urine biomarkers of kidney tubule injury were not associated with the composite outcome.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Tubular injury does not occur in most patients with acute heart failure experiencing WRF, consistent with the functional mechanisms of WRF in this patient population.</p><p><strong>Registration: </strong>URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01291836?term=NCT01291836&rank=1; Unique identifier: NCT01291836.</p>","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e011751"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11573103/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142459358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}