Hospital Complications and Causes of 90-Day Readmissions After Implantation of Left Ventricular Assist Devices.
Publication/Presentation Date
8-1-2018
Abstract
Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have emerged as an attractive option in patients with advance heart failure. Nationwide readmission database 2013 to 2014 was utilized to identify LVAD recipients using ICD-9 procedure code 37.66. The primary outcome was 90-day readmission. Readmission causes were identified using ICD-9 codes in primary diagnosis field. The secondary outcomes were LVAD associated with hospital complications. Hierarchic 2-level logistic models were used to evaluate study outcomes. We identified 4,693 LVAD recipients (mean age 57 years, 76.2% males). Of which 53.9% were readmitted in first 90 days of discharge. Cardiac causes (33.3%), bleeding (21.3%), and infections (12.4%) were leading etiologies of 90-day readmissions. Significant predictors (odds ratio, 95% confidence interval, p value) of readmission were disposition to nursing facilities (1.33, 1.09 to 1.63, p = 0.01) and longer length of stay (1.01, 1.00 to 1.01, p
Volume
122
Issue
3
First Page
420
Last Page
430
ISSN
1879-1913
Published In/Presented At
Tripathi, B., Arora, S., Kumar, V., Thakur, K., Lahewala, S., Patel, N., Dave, M., Shah, M., Savani, S., Sharma, P., Bandyopadhyay, D., Shantha, G., Egbe, A., Chatterjee, S., Patel, N. K., Gopalan, R., Figueredo, V. M., & Deshmukh, A. (2018). Hospital Complications and Causes of 90-Day Readmissions After Implantation of Left Ventricular Assist Devices. The American journal of cardiology, 122(3), 420–430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2018.04.015
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
29960661
Department(s)
Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division
Document Type
Article