Categorization of patients with pulmonary embolism by Charlson comorbidity index
Background - Short-term outcomes of pulmonary embolism are closely related to right ventricular dysfunction and patient's hemodynamic status, but also to individual comorbidity profile. However, the impact of patients’ comorbidities on survival during pulmonary embolism might be underrated. Alt...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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August 2024
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The American journal of medicine
Year: 2024, Volume: 137, Issue: 8, Pages: 727-735 |
| ISSN: | 1555-7162 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.amjmed.2024.04.025 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2024.04.025 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002934324002456 
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| Author Notes: | Karsten Keller, MD, Volker H. Schmitt, MD, Omar Hahad, PhD, Christine Espinola-Klein, MD, Thomas Münzel, MD, Philipp Lurz, MD, Stavros Konstantinides, MD, Lukas Hobohm, MD |
| Summary: | Background - Short-term outcomes of pulmonary embolism are closely related to right ventricular dysfunction and patient's hemodynamic status, but also to individual comorbidity profile. However, the impact of patients’ comorbidities on survival during pulmonary embolism might be underrated. Although the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) is the most extensively studied comorbidity index for detecting comorbidity burden, studies analyzing the impact of CCI on pulmonary embolism patients’ survival are limited. - Methods - We used the German nationwide inpatient sample to analyze all hospitalized patients with pulmonary embolism in Germany 2005-2020 and calculated CCI for each patient, compared the CCI classes (very low: CCI = 0 points, mild: CCI = 1-2 points, moderate: CCI = 3-4, high severity: CCI >4 points) and impact of CCI class on outcomes. - Results - Overall, 1,373,145 hospitalizations of patients with acute pulmonary embolism (53.0% females, 55.9% aged ≥70 years) were recorded in Germany between 2005 and 2020; the CCI class stratified them. Among these, 100,156 (7.3%) were categorized as very low; 221,545 (16.1%) as mild; 394,965 (28.8%) as moderate; and 656,479 (47.8%) as patients with a high comorbidity burden according to CCI class. In-hospital case fatality increased depending on the CCI class: 3.6% in very low, 6.5% in mild, 12.1% in moderate, and 22.1% in high CCI class (P < .001). CCI class was associated with increased in-hospital case fatality (odds ratio 2.014; 95% confidence interval, 2.000-2.027; P < .001). - Conclusion - Our study results may help practitioners to better understand and measure the association between an aggravated comorbidity profile and increased in-hospital case fatality in patients with pulmonary embolism. |
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| Item Description: | Online verfügbar: 24. April 2024, Artikelversion: 23. Juli 2024 Gesehen am 14.01.2025 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1555-7162 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.amjmed.2024.04.025 |