Does NYHA classification correlate with objective measures of exercise and mortality in adults with congenital heart disease?
NYHA classification remains a valuable clinical tool that should be incorporated into the routine assessment and risk stratification of ACHD patients.
Despite underestimating the degree of limitation in some ACHD patients, NYHA classification remains a valuable clinical tool. It correlates with objective measures of exercise and the severity of underlying cardiac disease, as well as mid- to long-term mortality and should, thus, be into incorporated the routine assessment and risk stratification of these patients.
Bredy et al. (Wed,) studied this question.