Newly Diagnosed Infection After Admission for Acute Heart Failure: From the KCHF Registry.

ABSTRACT: Background No studies have explored the association between newly diagnosed infections after admission and clinical outcomes in patients with acute heart failure. We aimed to explore the factors associated with newly diagnosed infection after admission for acute heart failure, and its association with in-hospital and post-discharge clinical outcomes. Methods and Results Among 4056 patients enrolled in the Kyoto Congestive Heart Failure registry, 2399 patients without any obvious infectious disease upon admission were analyzed. The major in-hospital and post-discharge outcome measures were all-cause deaths. There were 215 patients (9.0%) with newly diagnosed infections during hospitalization, and 2184 patients (91.0%) without infection during hospitalization. The factors independently assoc

SUBMITTER: Seko Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8751959 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature