Yuta Seko, Takao Kato, Takeshi Morimoto, Hidenori Yaku, Yasutaka Inuzuka, Yodo Tamaki, Neiko Ozasa, Masayuki Shiba, Erika Yamamoto, Yusuke Yoshikawa, Yugo Yamashita, Takeshi Kitai, Ryoji Taniguchi, Moritake Iguchi, Kazuya Nagao, Toshikazu Jinnai, Akihiro Komasa, Ryusuke Nishikawa, Yuichi Kawase, Takashi Morinaga, Mamoru Toyofuku, Yutaka Furukawa, Kenji Ando, Kazushige Kadota, Yukihito Sato, Koichiro Kuwahara, Takeshi Kimura
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...
November 16, 2021: Journal of the American Heart Association