Registry of Malignant Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death - Influence of Diagnostics and Interventions (RACE-IT)

Universitätsmedizin Mannheim

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Coronary Angiography; Internal Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD); Electrophysiologic Testing (EP); Ventricular Fibrillation; Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI); Sudden Cardiac Death; Catheter Ablation; Ventricular Tachycardia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02982473

2016-612N-MA

Details and patient eligibility

About

The "Registry of Malignant Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death - Influence of Diagnostics and Interventions (RACE-IT)" represents a mono-centric registry of patients being hospitalized suffering from malignant arrythmias (ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation) and sudden cardiac death (SCD).

Detailed findings of patients' clinical outcome regarding mortality and co-morbidities related to the presence of invasive diagnostics or therapies including coronary angiography, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), electrophysiological testing (EP), catheter ablation and implanted cardiac devices (e.g. implantable cardioverter-defibrillators) will be documented. Patients will be included when being hospitalized from the year 2004 until today.

Enrollment: 3,200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Hospitalization due to:

• ventricular tachycardia
• ventricular fibrillation
• sudden cardiac death

Exclusion criteria

• not diagnosed with one or more of the above