Survival after cardiac resynchronization therapy: results from 50 084 implantations

Abstract

Aims Randomized controlled trials have shown that cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) prolongs survival in patients with heart failure. No studies have explored survival after CRT in relation to individuals in the general population (relative survival, RS). We sought to determine observed and RS after CRT in a nationwide cohort undergoing CRT. Methods and results A national administrative database was used to quantify observed mortality for patients undergoing CRT. Relative survival (RS) was quantified using life tables. In 50 084 patients [age 72.1 ± 11.6 years (mean ± standard deviation)] undergoing CRT with (CRT-D) (n = 25 273) or without (CRT-P) defibrillation (n = 24 811) over 8.8 years (median follow-up 2.7 years, interquartile range 1.3–4.8), expected survival decreased with age. Device type, male sex, ischaemic heart disease, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease predicted excess mortality. In multivariate analyses, excess mortality (analogue of RS) was lower after CRT-D than after CRT-P in all patients [adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) 0.80, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.76–0.84] as well as in subgroups with (aHR 0.79, 95% CI 0.74–0.84) or without (aHR 0.82, 95% CI 0.74–0.91) ischaemic heart disease. A Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) ≥3 portended a higher excess mortality (aHR 3.04, 95% CI 2.76–3.34). Relative survival was higher in 2015–2017 than in 2009–2011 (aHR 0.64, 95% CI 0.59–0.69). Conclusion Reference RS data after CRT is presented. Sex, ischaemic heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and CCI were major determinants of RS after CRT. CRT-D was associated with a higher RS than CRT-P in patients with or without ischaemic heart disease. Relative survival after CRT improved from 2009 to 2017.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euy267
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > Aston Medical School
College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Biosciences
College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Biosciences > Cellular and Molecular Biomedicine
Additional Information: © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
Uncontrolled Keywords: Cardiac resynchronization therapy,Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator,Mortality,Relative survival,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology (medical)
Publication ISSN: 1532-2092
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2024 08:29
Date Deposited: 07 Jan 2019 11:51
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2019-05-01
Published Online Date: 2018-12-27
Accepted Date: 2018-10-20
Authors: Leyva, Francisco
Zegard, Abbasin
Okafor, Osita
De Bono, Joseph
Mcnulty, David
Ahmed, Asif (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-8755-8546)
Marshall, Howard
Ray, Daniel
Qiu, Tian

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