Manipal Heart Failure Registry (MHFR)

Launched by MANIPAL UNIVERSITY · May 15, 2017

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ClinConnect Summary

RESEARCH GAPS IDENTIFIED:

Only a couple of registry studies in India have followed patients for not more than one year and therefore long-term data on disease management and healthcare resource utilization and health economics has never addressed adequately. Typically, these studies have focused primarily upon inpatient HF clinical profiles, where detailed long-term documentation of cardiac function, treatment patterns, and outcomes is lacking.

HYPOTHESES:

Long term follow up of heart failure patients can identify the disease characteristics, clinical outcomes and help in the development...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Patients 18 year old, and above
• • 2. Patients with a documented diagnosis of Acute heart failure (or chronic heart failure with acute exacerbations) as decided by the physician according to local practices and their clinical judgment (i.e., History/examination; Chest X-ray; ECG, Echocardiogram, BNP or NT-proBNP).
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Patient's participation in any other clinical trial with an investigational treatment.
• • 2. Use of investigational drugs within 5 half-lives of enrolment, or until the expected pharmacodynamic effect has returned to baseline, whichever is longer (as guideline, last dose for small molecules should have occurred more than 30 days, and for biologics more than 4 months prior to enrolment).