scholarly journals Analysis of the effect of pneumonia on mortality (ORACLE-RF)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander G. Arutyunov ◽  
Anna V. Sokolova ◽  
Grigoriy P. Arutyunov ◽  
Dmitry O. Dragunov

Objective — To analyze the effect of pneumonia on mortality among patients with circulatory decompensation. Material and methods — The study was based on the ORACLE-RF registry containing information obtained from 20 cities in Russia. Patients were monitored for one year. The research included men and women with symptoms of chronic heart failure during circulatory decompensation period. The patients' average age was 67±13 years. Final analysis included 2404 patients. Results — Hospital mortality was at 9%. By the 30th day of observation, overall mortality rate stood at 13%. Within the year, the overall mortality rate was 43%. Pneumonia and chronic kidney disease (CKD) had the most pronounced effect on death risk – 49.5% and 47.2%. The study showed that patients who do not have pneumonia and CKD among other associated diseases were 2.5 times more likely to survive after 360 days of observation than patients who have them among other associated diseases. The chances of favorable prognosis in patients without pneumonia are 1.7 times higher than in patients with pneumonia among other diseases. Conclusion — Pneumonia probably triggered the decompensation mechanism and significantly increased mortality in these patients.

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S263-S264
Author(s):  
Denise M Kresevic ◽  
muralidahar pallaki ◽  
Christopher J Burant ◽  
Clare Gideon ◽  
Emily Schroeder ◽  
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Abstract Evidence continues to mount that sleep apnea (SA) occurs in 10-25% of Americans and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality (Schulman 2018). Among veterans, SA has been reported four times more often as compared to other non-veteran cohorts. (Wong 2015). The risk of developing dementia is increased in older individuals with OSA (Shastri, Bangar, & Holmes, 2015). The prevalence and characteristics of older adults with dementia and sleep apnea is not well known and long-term population-based studies on mortality have been lacking. Recent studies have reported overall mortality rates of 19%, in those individuals with SA, an increased rate of 1.5-3 times the mortality rate as compared to those individuals those without SA. Current recommendations support SA screening of high risk individuals including those with symptoms of snoring, fatigue, memory and concentration problems and mood changes. (Krist 2018). Despite a large number of older adults with suspected SA and comorbidities, the majority are not screened, referred, diagnosed and treated. In this VA pilot study of outpatient older male veterans with dementia and SA, N=195, mean age 75.83 years, SD=9.1, 51.3% were white, 37.5% were black. Frequently found comorbidities were: hypertension 88%, congestive heart failure 41%, Diabetes. 62% and, stroke 21%. Of note, among those who died, SA was significantly related to congested heart failure (r=.32, p<.001) and COPD (r=.40, p<.001). The overall mortality rate of 27% was higher than previous reports. Further investigation is needed to better understand the relationship between comorbidities, and SA, screening, treatment and mortality.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Gioli-Pereira ◽  
Fabiana G. Marcondes-Braga ◽  
Sabrina Bernardez-Pereira ◽  
Fernando Bacal ◽  
Fábio Fernandes ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Heart failure (HF) is a major public health problem with increasing prevalence worldwide. It is associated with high mortality and poor quality of life due to recurrent and costly hospital admissions. Several studies have been conducted to describe HF risk predictors in different races, countries and health systems. Nonetheless, understanding population-specific determinants of HF outcomes remains a great challenge. We aim to evaluate predictors of 1-year survival of individuals with systolic heart failure from the GENIUS-HF cohort. Methods We enrolled 700 consecutive patients with systolic heart failure from the SPA outpatient clinic of the Heart Institute, a tertiary health-center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Inclusion criteria were age between 18 and 80 years old with heart failure diagnosis of different etiologies and left ventricular ejection fraction ≤50% in the previous 2 years of enrollment on the cohort. We recorded baseline demographic and clinical characteristics and followed-up patients at 6 months intervals by telephone interview. Study data were collected and data quality assurance by the Research Electronic Data Capture tools. Time to death was studied using Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for demographic, clinical and socioeconomic variables and medication use. Results We screened 2314 consecutive patients for eligibility and enrolled 700 participants. The overall mortality was 6.8% (47 patients); the composite outcome of death and hospitalization was 17.7% (123 patients) and 1% (7 patients) have been submitted to heart transplantation after one year of enrollment. After multivariate adjustment, baseline values of blood urea nitrogen (HR 1.017; CI 95% 1.008–1.027; p < 0.001), brain natriuretic peptide (HR 1.695; CI 95% 1.347–2.134; p < 0.001) and systolic blood pressure (HR 0.982;CI 95% 0.969–0.995; p = 0.008) were independently associated with death within 1 year. Kaplan Meier curves showed that ischemic patients have worse survival free of death and hospitalization compared to other etiologies. Conclusions High levels of BUN and BNP and low systolic blood pressure were independent predictors of one-year overall mortality in our sample. Trial registration Current Controlled Trials NTC02043431, retrospectively registered at in January 23, 2014.


2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-38
Author(s):  
Camelia C. Diaconu ◽  
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Introduction. Renal dysfunction is one of the most common comorbidity of heart failure and may complicate its evolution. Aim. To analyze the frequency of chronic kidney disease in patients with decompensated chronic heart failure hospitalized in the Internal Medicine Clinic of the Clinical Emergency Hospital of Bucharest over a period of one year. Material and method. We retrospectively analyzed the data registered in hospital’s database between June 1st, 2014 – June 1st, 2015. Between 01.06.2014-01.06.2015, 609 patients with the diagnosis of chronic heart failure were hospitalized. Of these, 109 (17.89%) were diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and represented our group of study. Distribution of chronic kidney disease in patients with chronic heart failure, depending on the stage of chronic kidney disease, was: no patient with stage 1, 26.61% with stage 2, 33.94% with stage 3A, 28.44% in stage 3B, 8.26% with stage 4 and 2.75% with stage 5. Distribution of NYHA class in the study group was: 20.18% NYHA class II, 40.37% NYHA class III, 39, 45% NYHA IV. 37 of the 109 patients (33.94%) with chronic heart failure and CKD had type 2 diabetes. Other important comorbidities in the group of study have been hypertension and anemia. Conclusions. Most patients with chronic heart failure admitted to our clinic were men, had heart failure NYHA class III and presented CKD class 3. A significant proportion of patients had risk factors for both BRC and heart failure: essential hypertension, diabetes and anemia.


2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 318-26
Author(s):  
Gustina Lubis ◽  
Tm. Thaib ◽  
Atan Baas Sinuhaji ◽  
A. H. Sutanto

In 1989, oj2350 patients hospitalized in the paediatric ward of Dr. Pirngadi Hospital, Medan, 829 (35.3%) were gastroenteritis cases, with male more than female. Most of the patients with gastroenteritis were found in the age group of under 1 years (521 cases = 62.8%). The highest prevalence was found in january, February and March. Mild, moderate and severe dehydration were encountered in 2. 7%, 83.1% and 14.2% cases respectively. Eighty for (10.1%) cases had been treated with oralit before admission. Only 49. 1% of those patients with gastroenteritis under two years of age were breastfed. The patients of under five year old were 791 (95. 4%) cases; 259 (32. 7%) cases were malnourished. The overall mortality rate of these patients with gastroenteritis was 5.9% ( 49 cases). The age specific mortality rate was highest in the age group of 6- 12 months. Usually patients died with gastroenteritis had complications or associated diseases.


CJEM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (S1) ◽  
pp. S27-S28
Author(s):  
M. Lipinski ◽  
D. Eagles ◽  
L.M. Fischer ◽  
L. Mielneczuk ◽  
I.G. Stiell

Introduction: Heart failure (HF) is a common ED presentation that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Despite recent evidence and recommendations for early palliative care (PC) involvement in these patients, they are still significantly under-served by PC services, often resulting in multiple ED visits. We sought to evaluate use of PC services in patients with HF presenting to the ED. Secondary objectives of the study were to investigate: 1) one year mortality, ED visits, and admissions; 2) application of a novel palliative care referral score. Methods: We conducted a health records review of 500 consecutive HF patients who presented to two academic hospital EDs. We included patients aged 65 years or older who were diagnosed as having a HF exacerbation by the emergency physician (ICD-10 code 150.-). Our primary outcome was PC involvement. Secondary outcomes included one year mortality rates, ED visits, admissions to hospital, as well as the application of a novel PC referral score developed by the institutional cardiac Palliative Care Committee. The score consisted of 6 different aspects of the patient’s illness, including laboratory tests, hospital usage, and markers of decompensation. We conducted appropriate univariate analyses. Results: Patients were mean age 80.7 years, women (53.2%), and had significant comorbidities (atrial fibrillation (51.2%), diabetes (40.4%) and COPD (20.8%)). Compared to those with no PC, the 79 (15.8%) patients with PC involvement had a higher one year mortality rate (70.9% vs. 18.8%, p&lt;0.0001), more ED visits/year for HF (0.82 vs. 0.52, p&lt;0.0001), and more hospital admissions/year for HF (1.4 vs. 0.85, p&lt;0.0001). Using the heart failure palliative care score criteria, 60 patients had scores &gt;=2. Compared to those with scores &lt;2, these patients had a higher 1-year mortality rate (50% vs. 24%, p&lt;0.0001) and more ED visits/year for HF (0.83 vs. 0.54, p&lt;0.01). Only 40.0% of these high risk patients had any PC involvement. Conclusion: We found that few HF patients had PC services involved in their care. Using this novel HF palliative care referral score, we were able to identify patients with a significantly greater risk of mortality and morbidity. This study provides evidence that the ED is an appropriate setting to identify and refer high risk HF patients who would likely benefit from earlier PC involvement and may be a future avenue for PC access for these patients.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Nasser A. N. Alzerwi ◽  
Bandar Idrees ◽  
Saeed Alsareii ◽  
Yaser Aldebasi ◽  
Afnan Alsultan

Objective. Due to the rarity of recurrent gallstone ileus (RGSI), its epidemiological and clinical features are elusive. With a focus on mortality and the site of impaction, this study consolidates the key clinical characteristics of index GSI (IGSI) and RGSI. Methods. A meta-analysis of cases reported on RGSI was performed. Risk factors for mortality and site of impaction were examined, and a subgroup analysis was performed for age, sex, and site of impaction (jejunum, ileum, or others). Results. In the final analysis, 50 (56 individual cases) studies were included. The paired data for the site of impaction was available for 45 patients. Women accounted for 87.3% of all RGSI cases included in the pooled analysis. The median age (interquartile range, IQR) of the patients was 70 (63–76) years, and the median time of recurrence (IQR) was 20.5 (8.5–95.5) days. The overall mortality rate was 11.8%, without correlation between the mortality rate and age, the time of recurrence, or the site of impaction. The region in which the stone was found in RGSI and IGSI was similar in most cases p = 0.002 . Logistic regression also revealed a higher probability of stone impaction in the ileum in RGSI if it was the site of impaction in IGSI. In most cases, enterolithotomy was the preferred method. Conclusions. A high index of suspicion for RGSI should be maintained for older women with a history of GSI. The region where the stone was impacted during IGSI should be investigated first in such patients.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-257
Author(s):  
O. L. Barbarash ◽  
D. Yu. Sedykh ◽  
I. S. Bykova ◽  
V. V. Kashtalap ◽  
A. D. Erlich

Aim. To identify specific risk factors and features of the course of myocardial infarction (MI) in young patients.Material and methods. The study design is based on a comparison of observation data for patients of different ages from the Russian RECORD-3 registry (n=2359) and the registry of acute coronary syndrome of the Kemerovo city in 2015 (n=1343). The clinical and anamnestic portrait was determined, the frequency of hospital complications and the “hard” endpoints were evaluated.Results. Young patients with myocardial infarction (MI) according to RECORD-3 are more often male smokers (p=0.001) with a heredity in cardiovascular pathology (p=0.034), who have an uncomplicated STEMI upon admission to the hospital, and are sent for coronary angiography with stenting (p=0.001), without prescribing statins in the primary and secondary prevention (p=0.050 and p=0.016, respectively). There were no differences with other age groups by endpoints a year later; during the current hospitalization, young patients less often died (p=0.001) or had a relapse of MI (p=0.011). Young patients with MI from Kemerovo were also mostly male smokers (p=0.001), who more often had a history of chronic kidney disease, chronic heart failure, and lipid metabolism disorders (p=0.001), who admitted to the hospital with uncomplicated STEMI, actively undergoing thrombolytic therapy and endovascular diagnosis and treatment (p=0.001). However, it should be noted that these patients were less likely to receive aspirin (p=0.015), dual antiplatelet therapy (p=0.003), angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (p=0.040) and statins (p=0.001). Moreover, in young patients with MI, deficiency of high density lipoproteins (p=0.005) was more often found in the absence of very high values of low density lipoproteins (p=0.001). Among the complications of inpatient treatment, it should be noted a tendency to bleeding (p=0.001). One year after referent MI a high proportion of repeated non-fatal MI (p=0.005) and deaths (p=0.001) were observed. A comparison of the registries showed that young patients from Kemerovo were more likely to have STEMI (p=0.032), they were more likely to have stenting (p=0.004), they were more often diagnosed with chronic renal and heart failure (p=0.001), and more often ACE inhibitors was prescribed (p=0.017), and MI during hospitalization was more often complicated by bleeding (p=0.003).Conclusion. From 1.7 to 2.4% of all MI occurs in young patients. The most frequent version of the debut is STEMI. The leading factors of cardiovascular risk in such patients are the male gender, active smoking, a hereditary history of cardiovascular diseases, low cholesterol of high density lipoproteins with insufficient statins prevention. In young patients of the Kemerovo registry, chronic heart failure and chronic kidney disease were more often observed, and ACE inhibitors were prescribed, hospitalization was often accompanied by bleeding. In a young age differences in the frequency and structure of outcomes in one year after referent MI were not found when comparing registries.


Author(s):  
Ehud Chorin ◽  
Zach Rozenbaum ◽  
Yan Topilsky ◽  
Maayan Konigstein ◽  
Tomer Ziv-Baran ◽  
...  

AbstractAimsTricuspid regurgitation (TR) is a frequent echocardiographic finding; however, its effect on outcome is unclear. The objectives of current study were to evaluate the impact of TR severity on heart failure hospitalization and mortality.Methods and resultsWe retrospectively reviewed consecutive echocardiograms performed between 2011 and 2016 at the Tel-Aviv Medical Center. TR severity was determined using semi-quantitative approach including colour jet area, vena contracta width, density of continuous Doppler jet, hepatic vein flow pattern, trans-tricuspid inflow pattern, annular diameter, right ventricle, and right atrial size. Major comorbidities, re-admissions and all-cause mortality were extracted from the electronic health records. The final analysis included 33 305 patients with median follow-up period of 3.34 years (interquartile range 2.11–4.54). TR (≥mild) was present in 31% of our cohort. One-year mortality rates were 7.7% for patients with no/trivial TR, 16.8% for patients with mild TR, 29.5% for moderate TR, and 45.6% for patients with severe TR (P < 0.001). Univariate and multivariate analyses demonstrated a positive correlation between TR severity and overall mortality and rates of heart failure re-admission after adjustment for potential confounders. The proportional hazards method for overall mortality showed that patients with moderate [hazard ratio (HR) 1.15, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.02–1.3, P = 0.024] and severe TR (HR 1.43, 95% CI 1.08–1.88, P = 0.011) had a worse prognosis than those with no or minimal TR.ConclusionsThe presence of any degree of TR is associated with adverse clinical outcome. At least moderate TR is independently associated with increased mortality.


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