Effect of baseline characteristics on mortality in the SURVIVE trial on the effect of levosimendan vs dobutamine in acute heart failure: Sub-analysis of the Finnish patients.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:In the SURVIVE trial, including 1327 acute heart failure patients, no statistically significant difference between levosimendan and dobutamine in the 180-day all-cause mortality was seen. Country-specific differences in outcome were, however, present. In the Finnish sub-population in fact, mortality was significantly lower in levosimendan treated patients. We aim to understand the reasons for this disparity. METHODS:The risk factors for all-cause mortality were identified in the whole study population using multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression analysis. Those factors were evaluated in the 95 patients of the Finnish sub-population. RESULTS:The treatment by country interaction for mortality in Finland vs. other countries was significant, p=0.029. Levosimendan treated patients had a lower 180-day mortality compared to dobutamine treated (17% vs. 40%, p=0.023) in the Finnish sub-population. Baseline variables predicting survival in the whole SURVIVE trial population included age, systolic blood pressure, heart rate, myocardial infarction during admission, levels of NT-pro-BNP, glucose, creatinine, and alanine transferase, use of ACE inhibitors and β-blockers, oliguria, time from hospital admission to randomization, history of cardiac arrest, and left ventricular ejection fraction. Finnish patients were more frequently treated with β-blockers (88% vs. 52%, p<0.0001), their study treatment was started earlier (mean±SD 41±40h vs. 81±154; p<0.0001), and they had more often acute myocardial infarction at admission (39% vs. 16%, p<0.0001). CONCLUSION:The lower mortality in the Finnish patients treated with levosimendan was associated with higher use of β-blockers, higher frequency of myocardial infarction at admission, and shorter delay between randomization and start of treatment.

journal_name

Int J Cardiol

authors

Kivikko M,Pollesello P,Tarvasmäki T,Sarapohja T,Nieminen MS,Harjola VP

doi

10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.04.064

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-07-15 00:00:00

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26-31

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0167-5273

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1874-1754

pii

S0167-5273(16)30774-4

journal_volume

215

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