Establishment of a LVAD Destination Program in a Swiss Non Cardiac Transplant University Hospital

University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland20 enrolled

Overview

The goal of this study is to demonstrate the challenges and the effort to set up an artificial heart program as well as to report about the follow-up treatment and the mortality rate

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Heart Implant Complication

Interventions

collection of patient dataOTHER

assess mortality rate, rehospitalization and survival rate of patients after receiving an artificial heart implant

Eligibility

Sex: ALL

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients who received an LVAD implant Exclusion Criteria: * not enough data collected * stated will of the Patient, that his data can not be used

Locations (1)

Herzchirurgie University Hospital Basel

Basel, Switzerland

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

30 days mortality

mortality rate 30 days after receiving the LVAD implant

Time frame: 30 days after surgery

rehospitalization rate

rehospitalization rate of patients after receiving the LVAD implant

Time frame: between day of surgery and 31.12.2019

Secondary Outcomes

survival rate

survival rate of patients after receiving the LVAD implant (Kaplan-Meier curve)

Time frame: between day of surgery and 31.12.2019

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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