Risk-related short-term clinical outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation and their impact on early mortality: an analysis of claims-based data from Germany.

Objectives: We aimed to define and assess risk-specific adverse outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in an all-comers patient population based on German administrative claims data.

Methods: Administrative claims data of patients undergoing transvascular TAVI between 2017 and 2019 derived from the largest provider of statutory health-care insurance in Germany were used. Patients' risk profile was assessed using the established Hospital Frailty Risk (HFR) score and 30-day adverse events were evaluated.

Drug-eluting stents in clinical routine: a 1-year follow-up analysis based on German health insurance administrative data from 2008 to 2014.

Objectives: To describe the use of drug-eluting stents (DESs) in the largest population of statutory health insurance members in Germany, including newly developed bio-resorbable vascular scaffolds (BVSs), and to evaluate 1-year complication rates of DES as compared with bare metal stents (BMSs) in this cohort.

Design: Routine data analysis of statutory health insurance claims data from the years 2008 to 2014.

Setting: The German healthcare insurance Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse covers approximately 30% of the German population and is the largest nationwide provider of statutory healthcare insurance in Germany.

Revascularisation of patients with end-stage renal disease on chronic haemodialysis: bypass surgery versus PCI-analysis of routine statutory health insurance data.

Objectives: We aimed to analyse the short-term and long-term outcome of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) undergoing percutaneous intervention (PCI) as compared to coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) to evaluate the optimal coronary revascularisation strategy.

Design: Retrospective analysis of routine statutory health insurance data between 2010 and 2012.

Main Outcome Measures: Primary outcome was adjusted all-cause mortality after 30 days and major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events at 1 year.

[Complication rates and secondary interventions after coronary procedures in clinical routine: 1-year follow-up based on routine data of a German health insurance company].

Background: Data on 1-year complication and follow-up intervention rates after coronary angiography (CA) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in German clinical routine are sparse. This analysis aims to determine these rates.

Methods: The analysis uses 2009 AOK claims data.

[Influence of nocturnal oxygen therapy on quality of life in patients with COPD and isolated sleep-related hypoxemia: a prospective, placebo-controlled cross-over trial].

Background: In patients with COPD and isolated night time hypoxemia, oxygen administration has not shown any effects on life expectancy and the development of pulmonal arterial hypertension. The aim of the present pilot study was to investigate the influence of nocturnal oxygen therapy on the quality of life in daytime normoxemic COPD patients with nocturnal oxygen desaturations.

Patients And Methods: 19 patients with COPD, in a stable phase of the disease without need for oxygen supplementation under rest (PaO2 62.

[Locus of control belief is a predictor of CPAP-compliance in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome].

Approximately 25 % of all patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) discontinue CPAP-therapy in long-term follow-up. This study was conducted to investigate if there are any predictors signaling low compliance prior to initiation of CPAP-therapy. We used an open label longitudinal cohort study at an University hospital in-patient Sleep laboratory setting.

[Health promotion and inpatient rehabilitation. Long-term effects of education in patients with coronary heart disease].

Background And Purpose: The most important goals in the rehabilitation of patients with a coronary heart disease (CHD) include the diagnosis and treatment of risk factors, health promotion, and education. The knowledge on and awareness of cardiovascular risk factors is an important precondition for a high patient compliance. Former studies on patients in cardiologic departments of hospitals showed no effect of health promotion and education on patients' knowledge on risk factors, presumably because of the setting in acute therapy.