The coronavirus disease pandemic among adult congenital heart disease patients and the lessons learnt - results of a prospective multicenter european registry.

Adult congenital heart disease Coronavirus disease 2019 Outcomes Risk stratification

Journal

International journal of cardiology. Congenital heart disease
ISSN: 2666-6685
Titre abrégé: Int J Cardiol Congenit Heart Dis
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9918367981006676

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2023
Historique:
received: 10 08 2022
revised: 16 11 2022
accepted: 17 11 2022
pubmed: 29 11 2022
medline: 29 11 2022
entrez: 28 11 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, professionals in charge of particularly vulnerable populations, such as adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) patients, were confronted with difficult decision-making. We aimed to assess changes in risk stratification and outcomes of ACHD patients suffering from COVID-19 between March 2020 and April 2021. Risk stratification among ACHD experts (before and after the first outcome data were available) was assessed by means of questionnaires. In addition, COVID-19 cases and the corresponding patient characteristics were recorded among participating centres. Predictors for the outcome of interest (complicated disease course) were assessed by means of multivariable logistic regression models calculated with cluster-robust standard errors. When assessing the importance of general and ACHD specific risk factors for a complicated disease course, their overall importance and the corresponding risk perception among ACHD experts decreased over time. Overall, 638 patients (n = 168 during the first wave and n = 470 during the subsequent waves) were included (median age 34 years, 52% women). Main independent predictors for a complicated disease course were male sex, increasing age, a BMI >25 kg/m2, having ≥2 comorbidities, suffering from a cyanotic heart disease or having suffered COVID-19 in the first wave vs. subsequent waves. Apart from cyanotic heart disease, general risk factors for poor outcome in case of COVID-19 reported in the general population are equally important among ACHD patients. Risk perception among ACHD experts decreased during the course of the pandemic.

Sections du résumé

Background UNASSIGNED
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, professionals in charge of particularly vulnerable populations, such as adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) patients, were confronted with difficult decision-making. We aimed to assess changes in risk stratification and outcomes of ACHD patients suffering from COVID-19 between March 2020 and April 2021.
Methods and results UNASSIGNED
Risk stratification among ACHD experts (before and after the first outcome data were available) was assessed by means of questionnaires. In addition, COVID-19 cases and the corresponding patient characteristics were recorded among participating centres. Predictors for the outcome of interest (complicated disease course) were assessed by means of multivariable logistic regression models calculated with cluster-robust standard errors. When assessing the importance of general and ACHD specific risk factors for a complicated disease course, their overall importance and the corresponding risk perception among ACHD experts decreased over time. Overall, 638 patients (n = 168 during the first wave and n = 470 during the subsequent waves) were included (median age 34 years, 52% women). Main independent predictors for a complicated disease course were male sex, increasing age, a BMI >25 kg/m2, having ≥2 comorbidities, suffering from a cyanotic heart disease or having suffered COVID-19 in the first wave vs. subsequent waves.
Conclusions UNASSIGNED
Apart from cyanotic heart disease, general risk factors for poor outcome in case of COVID-19 reported in the general population are equally important among ACHD patients. Risk perception among ACHD experts decreased during the course of the pandemic.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36440468
doi: 10.1016/j.ijcchd.2022.100428
pii: S2666-6685(22)00111-2
pmc: PMC9678209
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

100428

Informations de copyright

© 2022 The Authors.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests:Professor Werner Budts reports financial support was provided by Abbott and Occlutech. Following co-authors: Dr. Pastora Gallego, Dr. Magalie Ladouceur, Dr. Massimo Chessa, Professor Werner Budts and Prof. Helmut Baumgartner are Associate Editors and, therefore, members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cardiology Congenital Heart Disease.

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Auteurs

Francisco Javier Ruperti-Repilado (FJ)

Centre for Congenital Heart Disease, Cardiology, University Hospital Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Division of Cardiology, University Hospital of Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Helmut Baumgartner (H)

Department of Cardiology III - Adult Congenital and Valvular Heart Disease, University Hospital Muenster, Germany.

Berto Bouma (B)

Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Judith Bouchardy (J)

Department of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Werner Budts (W)

Congenital and Structural Cardiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium.
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium.

Laurence Campens (L)

Cardiology Department, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.

Massimo Chessa (M)

ACHD-Unit. Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Centre, IRCCS-Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy.
Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.

Maria Jesús Del Cerro Marin (M)

Pediatric Cardiology & GUCH Centre, Ramon y Cajal University Hospital, Spain.

Harald Gabriel (H)

Medical University of Vienna, Department of Cardiology, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program, Vienna, Austria.

Pastora Gallego (P)

Adult Congenital Heart Disease Unit, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario, Virgen Del Rocio, Instituto de BioMedicina de Sevilla (IBIS) and CIBERCV, Sevilla, Spain.

Elvira Ana González (EA)

La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.

Annette Schophuus Jensen (AS)

Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark.

Magalie Ladouceur (M)

Université de Paris, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Unit, Centre de Référence des Malformations Cardiaques Congénitales Complexes, M3C. Inserm U970, Paris Centre de Recherche Cardiovasculaire, Paris, France.

Christopher Lockhart (C)

Department of Cardiology, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, BT126BA, United Kingdom.

Berta Miranda-Barrio (B)

Unitat Integrada de Cardiopaties Congènites de L'Adolescent I L'Adult Hospital Vall D'Hebron-Sant Pau. Servei de Cardiologia. Vall D'Hebron Hospital Universitari, Vall D'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Passeig Vall D'Hebron 119-129, 08035, Barcelona, Spain.

Marielle Morissens (M)

CHU Brugmann, Brussels, Belgium.

Eduardo Moreno Escobar (EM)

Inter-Center Unit for Congenital Heart Disease in Adults of Granada. Virgen de Las Nieves-Clínico San Cecilio University Hospitals. IBS, Granada, Spain.

Agnès Pasquet (A)

Pôle de Recherche Cardiovasculaire, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Université Catholique de Louvain and Divisions of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.

Joaquin Rueda Soriano (JR)

Adult Congenital Heart Disease Unit, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitari I Politècnic La Fe and CIBERCV, València, Spain.

Annemien Elise van den Bosch (A)

Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Heleen Berdina van der Zwaan (H)

University Medical Centre Utrecht, Netherlands.

Daniel Tobler (D)

Division of Cardiology, University Hospital of Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Matthias Greutmann (M)

University Heart Centre, Department of Cardiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Markus Schwerzmann (M)

Centre for Congenital Heart Disease, Cardiology, University Hospital Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland.

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