Haemodynamic Effects of Anaemia in Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Table 3

Comparison between subgroups for echocardiography and impedance cardiography.

	Subgroup A anaemic, LVEF < 40% n = 30	Subgroup B nonanaemic, LVEF < 40% n = 29	Subgroup C anaemic, LVEF ≥ 40% n = 22	Subgroup D nonanaemic, LVEF ≥ 40% n = 16	p
Echocardiography
LVEDD (mm)	65.6 ± 8.1	64.4 ± 8.8	52.7 ± 6.6	49.6 ± 6.4	<0.00001
					A vs C^#
					A vs D^#
					B Vs C^#
					B Vs D^#
RVEDD (mm)	36.0 ± 5.9	36.7 ± 6.6	35.1 ± 4.5	31.7 ± 4.1	0.070
LAD (mm)	49.1 ± 5.4	48.3 ± 5.0	47.8 ± 6.3	42.7 ± 6.2	0.007
					A vs D
					B Vs D
					3 vs D
LVEF (%)	27.6 ± 6.7	27.7 ± 6.3	51.3 ± 8.5	53.4 ± 8.2	<0.00001
					A vs C^#
					A vs D^#
					B Vs C^#
					B Vs D^#
Impedance cardiography (haemodynamics)
HR (bpm)	76.0 ± 18.4	91.9 ± 24.3	73.9 ± 16.6	82.9 ± 23.9	0.060
SBP (mmHg)	112.4 ± 16.9	116.9 ± 16.8	133.0 ± 30.8	140.4 ± 28.2	0.006
					A vs C
					A vs D^#
DBP (mmHg)	71.1 ± 8.3	76.4 ± 13.8	69.0 ± 11.9	76.6 ± 11.0	0.047
SI (ml/m^2)	37.2 ± 11.2	34.7 ± 9.6	49.4 ± 14.3	37.6 ± 9.7	0.002
					A vs C
					B Vs C^#
					D vs C
CI (l/min/m^2)	2.76 ± 0.88	2.96 ± 0.68	3.29 ± 0.92	2.91 ± 0.59	0.195
HI (Ohm  s^2)	8.1 ± 5.0	7.5 ± 4.6	13.6 ± 7.6	9.8 ± 4.8	0.014
					A vs C
					B Vs C
ACI (1/100  Ohm/s^2)	60.4 ± 25.2	58.8 ± 21.7	87.2 ± 40.4	63.6 ± 34.0	0.047
					A vs C
					B Vs C
VI (1/1000  Ohm/s)	39.4 ± 15.6	36.9 ± 16.1	55.7 ± 28.4	38.0 ± 17.1	0.098
SVRI (dyn  s  m^2/cm^5)	2442 ± 765	2405 ± 713	2168 ± 857	2451 ± 726	0.559
TFC (1/kOhm)	39.1 ± 7.7	35.7 ± 8.5	35.4 ± 7.1	31.3 ± 4.8	0.037
					A vs D

Data are presented as mean ± SD/n (%); ; ; . ACI, acceleration time index; CI, cardiac index; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; HI, Heather index; HR, heart rate; LAD, left atrium diameter; LVEDD, left ventricular end-diastolic diameter; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; RVEDD, right ventricular end-diastolic diameter; SBP, systolic blood pressure; SI, stroke index; SVRI, systemic vascular resistance index; TFC, thoracic fluid content; VI, velocity index.