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The increasing worldwide prevalence of heart failure is associated with numerous and protracted hospital admissions. The multidisciplinary team approach together with telemonitoring aims at reducing the number of rehospitalizations, length of hospital stay, and mortality rates. Novel cardiac resynchonization therapy (CRT) devices have a Home Monitoring capability, offering wireless, everyday transfer of the essential status and therapy data to the attending physician. The transmitted data include potential predictors of death or hospitalization, such as the onset of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, duration of physical activity, mean heart rates over 24 h and at rest, percentage of CRT delivered, and lead impedances. We present here interim results of the prospective, longitudinal, multicenter Home CARE Phase 0 study, conducted in 123 patients (age: 67±9 years, 83% male) with clinical indication for CRT. Twenty-nine patients (24%) received a CRT pacemaker, 52 (42%) a prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), and 42 (34%) had other ICD indications. All devices have an integrated Home Monitoring feature. In a mean (interim) follow-up period of 3 months (9194 observational days), 11 unplanned rehospitalizations of cardiovascular etiology and 9 deaths occurred. In 70% of the rehospitalization events, the retrospective analysis of transmitted data via Home Monitoring revealed an increase in mean heart rate at rest and in mean heart rate over 24 h within 7 days preceding hospitalization. A decrease in the percentage of CRT was observed in 43% and a reduction in the patients’ daily activity in 30% of rehospitalized patients. These interim findings suggest that Home Monitoring data may predict events leading to hospitalization and encourage further research.
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Ellery, S., Pakrashi, T., Paul, V. et al. Predicting mortality and rehospitalization in heart failure patients with Home Monitoring—. Clin Res Cardiol 95 (Suppl 3), iii29–iii35 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-006-1306-6
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