Clinical Effects of Early and Short-Term Tolvaptan Administration in Patients Hospitalized for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
| Autor: | Nobukiyo Tanaka, Kazuhiro Dan, Takuya Maeda, Hiroki Ishihara, Masanori Teramura, Kei Ichihashi, Yuya Takahashi, Daichi Tsuzura, Akira Shinoda, Masato Fujii, Hisashi Okada, Tomohiko Teramoto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Heart Failure
Acute decompensated heart failure business.industry Cost effectiveness Pleural effusion Tolvaptan Renal function Oxygenation medicine.disease Hospitalization Heart failure Anesthesia medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) In patient Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Cardiology. 146(6) |
| ISSN: | 1421-9751 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Previous trials showed that tolvaptan improves acute heart failure (HF). However, the optimal timing for administering tolvaptan to achieve the best outcome remains unclear. Therefore, the current study investigated the relationship between the timing of tolvaptan treatment initiation and clinical outcomes in patients with acute decompensated HF. Methods: We prospectively evaluated 201 patients with acute decompensated HF, randomly divided into 2 groups based on the timing of tolvaptan initiation. The early group was administered tolvaptan approximately 1 week after day 1 or 2 (n = 104), whereas the late group was administered the same drug 1 week after the early group (n = 97). Results: All-cause mortality, cardiovascular death, and hospitalization during the follow-up period were comparable between both groups. The early group had shorter durations of oxygenation, carperitide infusion, and hospitalization than the late group (p = 0.013, 0.003, 0.006, respectively). The early group demonstrated a significantly faster decrease in pleural effusion than the late group (p = 0.001). The 2 groups had comparable maximum and minimum serum sodium and potassium levels and minimum estimated glomerular filtration rates during hospitalization. The early group spent significantly less money on all diuretics administered over the first 2 weeks and on tolvaptan and carperitide administered during the hospitalization period than the late group (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Early and short-term administration of tolvaptan was feasible, contributed to a more rapid improvement in patients with acute decompensated HF, and reduced health-care costs. |
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