Global work index correlates with established prognostic parameters of heart failure.

Felix Hedwig Sajjad Soltani Julia Stein Felix Schoenrath Evgenij V Potapov Christoph Knosalla Volkmar FalkFabian KnebelJan Knierim

Published in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2020)

GWI correlates with known prognostic markers of heart failure. A GWI of <500 mm Hg% was a predictor of severely impaired ejection fraction, very low exercise capacity, and strongly elevated NT-pro-BNP, indicating a poor prognosis.

Keyphrases

poor prognosis
heart failure
ejection fraction
long non coding rna
aortic stenosis
left ventricular
cardiac resynchronization therapy
acute heart failure
high intensity
atrial fibrillation
fluorescent probe
living cells
body composition