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Patients were treated with bosentan and were assessed every 3\u2005months. Clinical worsening was defined as death from any cause, heart\u2013lung or lung transplantation (or on the waiting list for this procedure), hospitalisation for PAH, or symptom exacerbation defined as a \u226520% decrease in the 6\u2005min walking distance on two consecutive tests, an increase in WHO functional class, or worsening right heart failure. The mean follow-up was 33\u00b117\u2005months. Sixteen patients showed clinical worsening. Although they did not differ from the other patients in their baseline exercise capacity, haemodynamic characteristics and underlying CHD, pulmonary vascular resistance index (PVRi) was less reversible (\u0394PVRi 29\u00b121 vs 52\u00b114%, p<jats:italic>=<\/jats:italic>0.0003). At univariate analysis, systemic vascular resistance, PVRi and \u0394PVRi were significant predictors of clinical worsening. At multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression model, \u0394PVRi was found to be the only independent predictor of clinical worsening (HR=0.973, 95% CI 0.95 to 0.99; p<jats:italic>=<\/jats:italic>0.01). \u0394PVRi \u226525% had a positive and negative predictive value for clinical worsening of 100% and 75.9%, respectively.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Pulmonary vasoreactivity is a significant predictor of clinical worsening in patients with CHD-PAH.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/hrt.2010.199661","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,7,29]],"date-time":"2010-07-29T04:39:59Z","timestamp":1280378399000},"page":"1475-1479","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":35,"title":["Pulmonary vasoreactivity predicts long-term outcome in patients with Eisenmenger syndrome receiving bosentan therapy"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"96","author":[{"given":"Michele","family":"D'Alto","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Emanuele","family":"Romeo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Paola","family":"Argiento","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Giuseppe","family":"Santoro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Berardo","family":"Sarubbi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Giampiero","family":"Gaio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Christian","family":"M\u00e9lot","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Maria Giovanna","family":"Russo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Robert","family":"Naeije","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Raffaele","family":"Calabr\u00f2","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,7,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025100702341067000_96.18.1475.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/eurheartj\/ehp297"},{"key":"2025100702341067000_96.18.1475.2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.192230"},{"key":"2025100702341067000_96.18.1475.3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.104.488486"},{"key":"2025100702341067000_96.18.1475.4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.794610"},{"key":"2025100702341067000_96.18.1475.5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/heart.86.5.553"},{"key":"2025100702341067000_96.18.1475.6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ehj.2004.07.005"},{"key":"2025100702341067000_96.18.1475.7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.190690"},{"key":"2025100702341067000_96.18.1475.8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.592386"},{"key":"2025100702341067000_96.18.1475.9","first-page":"919","article-title":"The 6-minute walk: a new measure of exercise capacity in patients with chronic heart failure","volume":"132","author":"Guyatt","year":"1985","journal-title":"Can Med Assoc J"},{"key":"2025100702341067000_96.18.1475.10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/hrt.2006.097360"},{"key":"2025100702341067000_96.18.1475.11","unstructured":"Winer BJ . 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