What question did this study set out to answer?

The aim was to evaluate the prognostic significance of combinational elastography in heart failure patients.

January 9, 2026Journal of Clinical MedicineOpen Access

Prognostic Impact of Combinational Elastography in Patients with Heart Failure

Q: What does this research mean for the field?

A V/L value of ≥1.2 predicts higher rates of hospitalization for heart failure with 82% sensitivity and 68% specificity in patients over a median follow-up of 716 days. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.SUPPORTS_CONSENSUS.

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Key result

A V/L value of ≥1.2 predicted higher rates of hospitalization for heart failure with 82% sensitivity and 68% specificity in patients over a median follow-up of 716 days.

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TSTakahiro Sakamoto SYSeita YamasakiShimane University TOTaiji OkadaShimane University

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Implication

Prospective study evaluates prognostic impact of elastography in heart failure, suggesting its utility in assessing cardiac risk.

Key Points

The aim was to evaluate the prognostic significance of combinational elastography in heart failure patients.
Included 77 patients with heart failure, median age 79 years
Used shear-wave imaging to obtain shear-wave velocity (Vs)
Derived liver fibrosis index (LF index) from strain imaging
Calculated Vs/LF index (V/L) as a prognostic indicator
Defined cardiac events as cardiac death or hospitalization due to HF
17 cardiac deaths or hospitalizations observed during a median follow-up of 716 days
V/L showed a cut-off value of 1.2 for predicting cardiac events with an area under the curve of 0.80
Sensitivity of 0.82 and specificity of 0.68 for the V/L index
Higher rates of hospitalization for HF in patients with high V/L (≥1.2) compared to low V/L (<1.2)

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Sakamoto et al. (2026) studied this question. A V/L value of ≥1.2 predicted higher rates of hospitalization for heart failure with 82% sensitivity and 68% specificity in patients over a median follow-up of 716 days.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69612fd030ef6c21f6853c7a https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm15020478

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