PMID- 35058131 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220328 LR - 20220401 IS - 1878-7533 (Electronic) IS - 1550-7289 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 3 DP - 2022 Mar TI - Parallel improvement of systolic function with surgical weight loss in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction: a systematic review and patient-level meta-analysis. PG - 433-438 LID - S1550-7289(21)00596-7 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.soard.2021.12.016 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Morbid obesity (MO) is an increasingly common condition in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). Although substantial weight loss in morbidly obese patients has proved to slow the progression of heart failure, parallel alteration of ejection fraction (EF) and New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class along with post-bariatric surgery weight loss is yet to be determined. OBJECTIVES: This systematic review aimed to measure the effect of bariatric weight loss on EF and NYHA functional class in patients with HFrEF. METHODS: A systematic literature review was performed in Medline/PubMed to identify studies in patients with MO and pre-existing HFrEF, who underwent bariatric surgery. RESULTS: A total of 11 studies encompassing 136 patients with HFrEF undergoing bariatric surgery for MO were included. Six studies provided patient-level data on 37 cases. Patients lost an average body mass index (BMI) of 12.9 +/- 4.2 kg/m(2) (5.1 to 23 kg/m(2)) after an average follow up of 22.43 +/- 18.6 months (2-89 mo). There was a direct correlation between BMI loss and EF improvement (r = 0.61, P < .0001), but not between BMI loss and NYHA functional class changes (r = 0.17, P = .4). CONCLUSION: Weight loss induced by bariatric surgery results in parallel EF increase in patients with MO and HFrEF. However, current data does not indicate a parallel improvement of clinical symptoms (NYHA functional class) along with such an increase in EF in this population of patients. CI - Copyright (c) 2021 American Society for Bariatric Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Shoar, Saeed AU - Shoar S AD - Department of Clinical Research, ScientificWriting Corp, Houston, Texas. Electronic address: saeedshoar@scientificwriting.org. FAU - Manzoor, Asifa AU - Manzoor A AD - Akhtar Saeed Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan. FAU - Abdelrazek, Ahmad Saeed AU - Abdelrazek AS AD - School of Medicine, October 6 University School of Medicine, Giza, Egypt. FAU - Ikram, Waleed AU - Ikram W AD - Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona. FAU - Hosseini, Fatemeh AU - Hosseini F AD - School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. FAU - Shoar, Nasrin AU - Shoar N AD - Department of Clinical Research, ScientificWriting Corp, Houston, Texas; School of Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran. FAU - Khavandi, Soheila AU - Khavandi S AD - Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. FAU - Shah, Ahmed Ali AU - Shah AA AD - School of Medicine, Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur, Pakistan. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Meta-Analysis PT - Review PT - Systematic Review DEP - 20211217 PL - United States TA - Surg Obes Relat Dis JT - Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery JID - 101233161 SB - IM MH - *Bariatric Surgery MH - Body Mass Index MH - Gastrectomy/methods MH - *Gastric Bypass/methods MH - *Heart Failure/complications/surgery MH - Humans MH - *Obesity, Morbid/complications/surgery MH - Retrospective Studies MH - Stroke Volume MH - Treatment Outcome MH - Weight Loss OTO - NOTNLM OT - Bariatric surgery OT - EF OT - Ejection fraction OT - HFrEF OT - Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction OT - Morbid obesity OT - NYHA OT - New York Heart Association OT - Roux-en-Y gastric bypass OT - Sleeve Gastrectomy EDAT- 2022/01/22 06:00 MHDA- 2022/03/29 06:00 CRDT- 2022/01/21 05:56 PHST- 2021/09/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/11/18 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/12/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/01/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/03/29 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/01/21 05:56 [entrez] AID - S1550-7289(21)00596-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.soard.2021.12.016 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2022 Mar;18(3):433-438. doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2021.12.016. Epub 2021 Dec 17.