Heart Failure Decompensation And In-Hospital Mortality

University of Roma La Sapienza

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Decompensated Heart Failure; Chronic Heart Failure; Morality

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04127162

CHF_NTproBNP

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background and objectives Heart failure is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and it is a major cause of emergency department access for cardiovascular disease patients. Aim of this study is to identify the markers, based on short-term temporal repolarization dispersion, capable to individuate decompensated chronic heart failure (CHF) patients at high mortality risk.

Method: We will obtain the following variables from ECG monitor, via mobile phone, during 5-minute recordings in decompensated CHF patients: RR, QT end (QTe), QT peak (QTp) and T peak to T end (Te) and we calculated mean, standard deviation (SD) and normalized index (N).

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• at least one symptom or sign compatible with a decompensation and/or a previous documented history of CHF

Exclusion criteria

• pneumonia
• pulmonary embolism

Trial design

50 participants in 2 patient groups

alive

dead