American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 105, Issue 1 , Pages 129-132 , 1 January 2010

Relation of the Ankle Brachial Index to Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction

  • Syed Rizvi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, New York
    • ,
  • Haroon Kamran, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
    • ,
  • Louis Salciccioli, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
    • ,
  • Faisal Saiful, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, New York
    • ,
  • James Lafferty, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, New York
    • ,
  • Jason M. Lazar, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Tel: (718) 221-5222; fax: (718) 221-5220

Received 11 July 2009 ,Revised 23 August 2009 ,Accepted 23 August 2009.

References 

  1. Hirsch AT, Criqui MH, Treat-Jacobson D, Regensteiner JG, Creager MA, Olin JW, et al. Peripheral arterial disease detection, awareness, and treatment in primary care. JAMA. 2001;286:1317–1324
  2. Zheng ZJ, Sharrett AR, Chambless LE, Rosamond WD, Nieto FJ, Sheps DS, et al. Associations of ankle-brachial index with clinical coronary heart disease, stroke and preclinical carotid and popliteal atherosclerosis: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Atherosclerosis. 1997;1:115–125
  3. McKenna M, Wolfson S, Kuller L. The ratio of ankle and arm arterial pressure as an independent predictor of mortality. Atherosclerosis. 1991;87:119–128
  4. Fowkes FG, Murray GD, Butcher I, Heald CL, Lee RJ, Chambless LE, et al. Ankle brachial index combined with Framingham Risk Score to predict cardiovascular events and mortality: a meta-analysis. JAMA. 2008;300:197–208
  5. Merillon JP, Lebras Y, Chastre J, Lerallut JF, Motte G, Fontenier G, et al. Forward and backward waves in the arterial system, their relationship to pressure waves form. Eur Heart J. 1983;4:13–20
  6. Weber T, Auer J, Lamm G, O'Rourke MF, Eber B. Arterial stiffness, central blood pressures, and wave reflections in cardiomyopathy-implications for risk stratification. J Card Fail. 2007;13:353–359
  7. Bertino RE, Grassi CJ, Bluth EI, Cardella JF, Frates M, Gooding GA, et al. Practice guideline for the performance of physiologic evaluation of extremity arteries. Radiol J Vasc Interv. 2007;18:1203–1206
  8. Lang RM, Bierig M, Devereux RB, Flachskampf FA, Foster E, Pellikka PA, et al. Recommendations for chamber quantification: a report from the American Society of Echocardiography's guidelines and standards committee and the Chamber Quantification Writing Group, developed in conjunction with the European Association of Echocardiography, a branch of the European Society of Cardiology. J Am Soc Echocardiograph. 2005;18:1440–1463
  9. Teichholz LE, Kreulen T, Herman MV, Gorlin R. Problems in echocardiographic volume determinations: echocardiographic angiographic correlations in the presence or absence of asynergy. Am J Cardiol. 1976;37:7–11
  10. Flaherty JD, Bax JJ, De Luca L, Rossi JS, Davidson CJ, Filippatos G, et al. Acute heart failure syndromes in patients with coronary artery disease early assessment and treatment. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009;53:254–263
  11. Morillas P, Cordero A, Bertomeu V, Gonzalez-Juanatey JR, Quiles J, Guindo J, et al. Prevalence of Peripheral Arterial Disease in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome (PAMISCA) Investigators (Links prognostic value of low ankle-brachial index in patients with hypertension and acute coronary syndromes). J Hypertens. 2009;27:341–347
  12. Maldonado J, Pereira T, Resende M, Simões D, Carvalho M. Usefulness of the ankle-brachial index in assessing vascular function in normal individuals. Rev Port Cardiol. 2008;27:465–476
  13. Wright JW, Mizutani S, Harding JW. Pathways involved in the transition from hypertension to hypertrophy to heart failure: treatment strategies. Heart Fail Rev. 2008;13:367–375
  14. Ward RP, Goonewardena SN, Lammertin G, Lang RM. Comparison of the frequency of abnormal cardiac findings by echocardiography in patients with and without peripheral arterial disease. Am J Cardiol. 2007;99:499–503
  15. Thatipelli MR, Pellikka PA, McBane RD, Rooke TW, Rosales GA, Hodge D, et al. Prognostic value of ankle-brachial index and dobutamine stress echocardiography for cardiovascular morbidity and all-cause mortality in patients with peripheral arterial disease. J Vasc Surg. 2007;46:62–70
  16. Resnick HE, Foster GL. Prevalence of elevated ankle-brachial index in the United States 1999–2002. Am J Med. 2005;118:676–679
  17. Kröger K, Stang A, Kondratieva J, Moebus S, Beck E, Schmermund A, et al. Prevalence of peripheral arterial disease—results of the Heinz Nixdorf recall study. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:279–285
  18. Ono K, Tsuchida A, Kawai H, Matsuo H, Wakamatsu R, Maezawa A, et al. Ankle-brachial blood pressure index predicts all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in hemodialysis patients. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2003;14:1591–1598
  19. Aboyans V, Lacroix P, Postil A, Guilloux J, Rolle F, Cornu E, et al. Subclinical peripheral arterial disease and incompressible ankle arteries are both long-term prognostic factors in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005;46:815–820
  20. O'Hare AM, Katz R, Shlipak MG, Cushman M, Newman AB. Mortality and cardiovascular risk across the ankle-arm index spectrum: results from the Cardiovascular Health Study. Circulation. 2006;113:388–393
  21. Resnick HE, Lindsay RS, McDermott MM, Devereux RB, Jones KL, Fabsitz RR, et al. Relationship of high and low ankle brachial index to all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality: the Strong Heart Study. Circulation. 2004;109:733–739
  22. Wattanakit K, Folsom AR, Duprez DA, Weatherley BD, Hirsch AT. Clinical significance of a high ankle-brachial index: insights from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Atherosclerosis. 2007;190:459–464
  23. Tartière JM, Logeart D, Safar ME, Cohen-Solal A. Interaction between pulse wave velocity, augmentation index, pulse pressure and left ventricular function in chronic heart failure. J Hum Hypertens. 2006;20:213–219
  24. Nichols WW, Pepine CJ. Ventricular/vascular interaction in health and heart failure. Compr Ther. 1992;18:12–19
  25. Khaleghi M, Kullo IJ. Aortic augmentation index is associated with the ankle-brachial index: a community-based study. Atherosclerosis. 2007;195:248–253
  26. Lekakis JP, Ikonomidis I, Protogerou AD, Papaioannou TG, Stamatelopoulos K, Papamichael CM, et al. Arterial wave reflection is associated with severity of extracoronary atherosclerosis in patients with coronary artery disease. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. 2006;13:236–242
  27. Allison MA, Hiatt WR, Hirsch AT, Coll JR, Criqui MH. A high ankle-brachial index is associated with increased cardiovascular disease morbidity and lower quality of life. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008;51:1292–1298
  28. Wysokinski WE, Spittell PC, Pellikka PA, Miller WL, Seward JB. Dobutamine effect on ankle-brachial pressure index in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease: new noninvasive test for evaluation of peripheral circulation?. Int Angiol. 1998;17:201–207
  29. Kullo IJ, Bailey KR, Kardia SL, Mosley TH, Boerwinkle E, Turner ST. Ethnic differences in peripheral arterial disease in the NHLBI Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy (GENOA) study. Vasc Med. 2003;8:237–242

PII: S0002-9149(09)02229-2

doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.08.664

American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 105, Issue 1 , Pages 129-132 , 1 January 2010

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution