Cardiac Dysfunction in Patients with Fatty Liver Disease
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Echocardiographic assessment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: NAFLD, Cardiac Disease, Fatty Liver, MASLD - Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease. Basic parameters: 18 years — 65 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- India
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy and Cardiac Dysfunction in Patients with Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease
Overview
Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy is seen as a blunted contractile responsiveness to stress, and/or altered diastolic relaxation with electrophysiological abnormalities, in absence of known cardiac disease. Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) is associated with risk of hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) , septic shock. , heart failure in the perioperative period following liver transplantation, and after trans-jugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) insertion . The echocardiographic E/e' ratio is a predictor of survival in LVDD, with multiple studies, including prospective data from our Centre. The inability of the heart to cope with stress or sepsis induced circulatory failure is a key concept of the increased mortality risk due to LVDD. In view of the metabolic syndrome and diabetes epidemic and an increasing number of patients being diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, there is increased risk of developing cardiac dysfunction due to multiple comorbidities including coronary artery disease, hypertensive heart disease, cirrhotic cardiomyopathy, which are contributors to overall cardiovascular risk of mortality.
Detailed description
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and heart failure (HF) are obesity-related conditions with high cardiovascular mortality. Many new studies have linked NAFLD to changes in myocardial energy metabolism, and to echocardiographic measurements of cardiac dysfunction especially heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Cardiac dysfunction in NAFLD is related to the release of inflammatory cytokines among those with steatohepatitis (NASH). However composite models looking at coronary artery disease, systolic and diastolic heart failure and outcomes in patients with NAFLD are limited, and the few preliminary analyses of this relationship using histologically-defined NASH or lean NAFLD remain unclear.
In this project the investigators will screen patients with a diagnosis of 'non-alcoholic fatty liver disease' for presence of coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, cirrhotic cardiomyopathy and develop a model for cardiac dysfunction in such patients.
Interventions
- Diagnostic test Echocardiographic assessment
M mode, cross sectional and pulsed wave Doppler Echocardiographic examinations will be performed using a with a 2.5 MHz wide angle phased array transducer. Patients will be laid in left lateral position and examined in standard parasternal long and short axis and apical views. Short axis recordings will be performed at the level of the papillary muscles. M mode tracings will be recorded at the level of the papillary muscles and the aortic valves, with 2 -D guidance. LV wall thickness and cavity
Primary outcome measures
- To determine the prevalence of cardiac dysfunction in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease/ metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease [Time frame: At Enrolment]
Secondary outcome measures (5)
- Presence of myocardial abnormalities in CCM dysfunction [Time frame: At Enrolment]
- Presence of perfusion abnormalities in CCM dysfunction [Time frame: At Enrolment]
- All cause mortality in metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease [Time frame: 12 months after enrolment]
- Cardiac event related mortality in MASLD [Time frame: 12 months after enrolment]
- To determine the severity of cardiac dysfunction in patients with metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease [Time frame: At Enrolment]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Age range of 18-65 years
- metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease as diagnosed either by histology or clinical, laboratory, non invasive tests, USG findings and vibration controlled transient elastography (VCTE).
Exclusion criteria
- Age >65 years
- Chronic renal disease
- Pregnancy and peripartum cardiomyopathy
- Hypertension
- Valvular heart disease
- Sick sinus syndrome/ Pacemaker
- Cardiac rhythm disorder
- Hypothyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Portal vein thrombosis
- Transjugular intrahepatic porto systemic shunt (TIPS) insertion
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Anemia Hb < 8gm/dl in females, and < 9 gm/dl in males at the time of assessment
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
India · 1 center
- Dr. Madhumita Premkumar — Chandigarh
Publications
- Younossi ZM, Koenig AB, Abdelatif D, Fazel Y, Henry L, Wymer M. Global epidemiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease-Meta-analytic assessment of prevalence, incidence, and outcomes. Hepatology. 2016 Jul;64(1):73-84. doi: 10.1002/hep.28431. Epub 2016 Feb 22. PMID 26707365
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06386094 · INT/IEC/2023/SPL-902 · IEC/2024/1523 dt 3.12.2024