Cardiac changes in patients with chronic liver disease: A prospective descriptive study
Keywords:
Cardiomyopathy, Cirrhosis, chronic liver disease
Abstract
Background: The systemic circulation in patients with cirrhosis is hyperdynamic with an increased cardiac output and heart rate and a reduced systemic vascular resistance as the most pronounced alterations. The concomitant cardiac dysfunction has recently been termed “cirrhotic cardiomyopathy”, which is an entity different from that seen in alcoholic heart muscle disease.
Objective: To study cardiac changes in patients with chronic liver disease.
Methodology: The present study was a prospective descriptive clinical study consisting of thirty five patients with cirrhosis who were inpatients in the department of Medicine, tertiary care Institute, from Oct 2011 to Oct 2013.The patients were evaluated for presence of cirrhotic cardiomyopathy.
Results: In A group there is no patient, while in Child- Pugh Score- B group 14 subjects have cirrhotic cardiomyopathy out of 16 and in C group 18 have cirrhotic cardiomyopathy out of 19. We analyzed that there was no relation between severity of liver disease and cirrhotic cardiomyopathy (p value- 0.446).
Conclusion: Indian patients with cirrhosis do have diastolic dysfunction. In the absence of other risk factors for cardiac disease, this dysfunction can be attributed only to cirrhotic cardiomyopathy.
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6. Levy M, Maher E, Wexler MJ. Euvolemic cirrhotic dogs in sodium balance maintain normal systemic hemodynamics. Can J Physiol Pharmacol. 1988 Jan;66(1):80-3.
7. Fernández-Rodriguez CM, Prieto J, Zozaya JM, Quiroga J, Guitián R. Arteriovenous shunting, hemodynamic changes, and renal sodium retention in liver cirrhosis. Gastroenterology. 1993 Apr;104(4):1139-45. [PubMed]
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10. Shah A, Variyam E. Pericardial effusion and left ventricular dysfunction associated with ascites secondary to hepatic cirrhosis. Arch Intern Med1988;148:585–8. [PubMed]
11. Ahmed SS, Howard M, ten Hove W, Leevy CM, Regan TJ. Cardiac function in alcoholics with cirrhosis: absence of overt cardiomyopathy--myth or fact? J Am Coll Cardiol. 1984 Mar;3(3):696-702. [PubMed]
12. Møller S, Søndergaard L, Møgelvang J, Henriksen O, Henriksen JH. Decreased right heart blood volume determined by magnetic resonance imaging: evidence of central underfilling in cirrhosis. Hepatology. 1995 Aug;22(2):472-8. [PubMed]
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14. Wong F, Liu P, Lilly L, Bomzon A, Blendis L. Role of cardiac structural and functional abnormalities in the pathogenesis of hyperdynamic circulation and renal sodium retention in cirrhosis. Clin Sci (Lond). 1999 Sep;97(3):259-67.
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20. Rector WG Jr, Robertson AD, Lewis FW, Adair OV. Arterial underfilling does not cause sodium retention in cirrhosis. Am J Med. 1993 Sep;95(3):286-95. [PubMed]
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22. Keller H, Bezjak V, Stegaru B, Buss J, Holm E, Heene DL. Ventricular function in cirrhosis and portasystemic shunt: a two-dimensional echocardiographic study. Hepatology. 1988 May-Jun;8(3):658-62.
23. Estruch R, Fernández-Solá J, Sacanella E, Paré C, Rubin E, Urbano-Márquez A. Relationship between cardiomyopathy and liver disease in chronic alcoholism. Hepatology. 1995 Aug;22(2):532-8.
24. Laffi G, Barletta G, La Villa G, Del Bene R, Riccardi D, Ticali P, Melani L, Fantini F, Gentilini P. Altered cardiovascular responsiveness to active tilting in nonalcoholic cirrhosis.
25. Pozzi M, Carugo S, Boari G, Pecci V, de Ceglia S, Maggiolini S, Bolla GB, Roffi L, Failla M, Grassi G, Giannattasio C, Mancia G. Evidence of functional and structural cardiac abnormalities in cirrhotic patients with and without ascites. Hepatology. 1997 Nov;26(5):1131-7.
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27. Henriksen JH, Bendtsen F, Sørensen TI, Stadeager C, Ring-Larsen H. Reduced central blood volume in cirrhosis. Gastroenterology. 1989 Dec;97(6):1506-13. [PubMed]
28. Lewis FW, Adair O, Rector WG. Arterial vasodilation is not the cause of increased cardiac output in cirrhosis. Gastroenterology1992;102:1024–9.
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DOI: 10.17511/ijmrr.2016.i04.16
Published: 2016-04-30
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Sukhwani N, Nayak OP, Kumbhkar T. Cardiac changes in patients with chronic liver disease: A prospective descriptive study. Int J Med Res Rev [Internet]. 2016Apr.30 [cited 2024Dec.23];4(4):569-74. Available from: https://ijmrr.medresearch.in/index.php/ijmrr/article/view/519
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