Mbarara Acute Heart Failure Registry

Completed

• Conditions: Heartfailure

• Registration Number: NCT02721030
• Lead Sponsor: Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Brief Summary

This is a prospective cohort to describe clinical characteristics, predictors of poor outcomes both during hospitalization and at home, functional status, and quality of life among patients aged 13 years or more, consecutively admitted with acute decompensated heart failure at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.

Detailed Description

This is a prospective observational cohort study to collect comprehensive data of heartfailure patients during and after hospitalization for acute heart failure at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH), Uganda. The investigators will collect sociodemographic, clinical, quality of life, functional status, and clinical cardiovascular disease measures during hospitalization and follow up for up to 1 year from the date of enrollment.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-03-01
• Study First Submitted: 2016-03-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-03-25
• Study First Posted: 2016-03-28
• Primary Completion: 2017-03-01
• Study Completion: 2018-03-23
• Status Verified: 2018-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-08-14
• Last Update Posted: 2018-08-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 217

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients admitted with a confirmed clinical diagnosis of acute heartfailure aged 13 years or above at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda

Exclusion Criteria

• Body swelling from kidney disease, liver disease or malnutrition.
• Acute kidney disease with no previous history/documentation of heart disease.
• History suggestive of chronic kidney disease with no previous history/documentation of heart disease.
• History suggestive of chronic liver disease with no previous history/documentation of heart disease.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
All-cause mortality	1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Length of hospitalization	1 year	Length of hospital stay
Functional status using the Kansas city cardiomyopathy questionnaire	1 year	Kansas city cardiomyopathy questionnaire will be used to measure functional status during hospitalization and quarterly after hospitalization with acute heartfailure.
Quality of life using the SF-36 questionnaire	1 year	Quality of life will be measured using SF-36 questionnaire.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital; 🇺🇬 Mbarara, N/A = Not Applicable, Uganda