ArticleCirculation2016
Evidence for Intramyocardial Disruption of Lipid Metabolism and Increased Myocardial Ketone Utilization in Advanced Human Heart Failure.
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- Update on the Efficacy and Safety of Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporter 2 Inhibitors in Patients with Chronic Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Pooled it
- Determinants of Adherence to a Ketogenic Diet in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction.Nutrients · 2026Trial
- A ketogenic-promoting beverage acutely elevates cardiac function and myocardial blood flow compared to placebo in adults: A cardiac MRI investigation.Physiological reports · 2025Trial
- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Effects of Modulating Circulating Ketone Bodies With 1,3-Butanediol in Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Trial
- Fasting substrates predict chronic kidney disease progression in CREDENCE trial patients with type 2 diabetes.JCI insight · 2024 · on this mapTrial
- Cardiovascular Effects of Oral Ketone Ester Treatment in Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Randomized, Controlled, Double-Blind Trial.Circulation · 2024Trial
- Acute effects of β-hydroxybutyrate on left ventricular function in young, healthy adults.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2023Trial
- Stimulation of the Hydroxycarboxylic Acid Receptor 2 With the Ketone Body 3-Hydroxybutyrate and Niacin in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure: Hemodynamic and Metabolic Effects.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Trial
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- Cardiac fibrosis: mechanistic insights and translational advances.Molecular biomedicine · 2026Review
- Redox coupling of lactate and β-hydroxybutyrate: An inter-organ circuit linking metabolic flexibility, mitochondrial adaptation, and disease.Redox biology · 2026Review
- Mitochondrial Distress Signals at the Heart-Liver Interface: Molecular Links Between MASLD and Heart Failure.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Myocardial Lipid Metabolism Imbalance: The Pathological Core and Novel Diagnostic-Therapeutic Directions of Cardiovascular Diseases.Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology · 2026Review
- HFpEF and MASLD: converging mechanisms and clinical implications.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2026Review
- Ketogenic diet and ketone salts differentially improve cardiometabolic complications in an HFpEF rat model.The Journal of physiology · 2026Article
- Integrated Myocardial and Plasma Lipidome Across the Human Obesity-Heart Failure Spectrum.Research square · 2026Article
- Prognostic Value of Dynamic FDG PET-Derived Myocardial Glucose Metabolism in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy with Supportive External Gene-Expression Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Palmitic Acid-Induced Hepatotoxicity in Adult Zebrafish: Molecular Mechanisms and Advances in Intervention.Biology · 2026Review
- Cardiac regeneration and repair: the emerging mechanisms and therapeutic approaches.Molecular biomedicine · 2026Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe failing human heart is characterized by metabolic abnormalities, but these defects remains incompletely understood. In animal models of heart failure there is a switch from a predominance of fatty acid utilization to the more oxygen-sparing carbohydrate metabolism. Recent studies have reported decreases in myocardial lipid content, but the inclusion of diabetic and nondiabetic patients obscures the distinction of adaptations to metabolic derangements from adaptations to heart failure per se. METHODS AND
resultsWe performed both unbiased and targeted myocardial lipid surveys using liquid chromatography-mass spectroscopy in nondiabetic, lean, predominantly nonischemic, advanced heart failure patients at the time of heart transplantation or left ventricular assist device implantation. We identified significantly decreased concentrations of the majority of myocardial lipid intermediates, including long-chain acylcarnitines, the primary subset of energetic lipid substrate for mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation. We report for the first time significantly reduced levels of intermediate and anaplerotic acyl-coenzyme A (CoA) species incorporated into the Krebs cycle, whereas the myocardial concentration of acetyl-CoA was significantly increased in end-stage heart failure. In contrast, we observed an increased abundance of ketogenic β-hydroxybutyryl-CoA, in association with increased myocardial utilization of β-hydroxybutyrate. We observed a significant increase in the expression of the gene encoding succinyl-CoA:3-oxoacid-CoA transferase, the rate-limiting enzyme for myocardial oxidation of β-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate.
conclusionsThese findings indicate increased ketone utilization in the severely failing human heart independent of diabetes mellitus, and they support the role of ketone bodies as an alternative fuel and myocardial ketone oxidation as a key metabolic adaptation in the failing human heart.
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