Hypokalemia in Hospitalized Patients for Heart Failure in the Therapeutic Cardiac Failure Unit (HYPIC)

Centre Hospitalier Régional Metz-Thionville

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Failure

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03405051

2017-03Obs-CHRMT

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hypokalemia is very common in heart failure patients. Deleterious effects have been report on the cardiovascular system. Most of the clinical data concerning this ionic trouble are based on post-hoc study and some findings seemed disjointed.

Full description

This study tried to describe hypokalemia impact during hospital stay in hospitalized patients with heart failure and particularly on mortality and re-hospitalization.

Enrollment: 250 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hospitalized patient in the Therapeutic Cardiac Failure Unit in the CHR Metz-Thionville
• Patient with congestive heart failure

Exclusion criteria

• None