Basics in Acute Shortness of Breath EvaLuation (BASEL V) Study

NCT ID: NCT01831115

Last Updated: 2025-02-28

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

5452 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2006-04-30

Study Completion Date

2025-12-31

Brief Summary

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To improve the diagnostic and prognostic utility of various biomarkers, detailed patient's history, physical examinations and technical devices in patients presenting with acute dyspnea.

Detailed Description

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Background: Acute heart failure is a common disease associated with high morbidity and mortality. Unfortunately, pathophysiology and optimal initial treatment are both ill defined.

Working Hypothesis:

* Improved understanding of the pathophysiology underlying heart failure might allow more cause-specific treatment to this syndrome.
* More rapid diagnosis of acute heart failure may allow to more rapidly initiate the appropriate treatment.
* Cardiac dysfunction especially in comorbid dyspneic patients is not adequately characterized and the spectrum of acute heart failure is more diverse than originally thought.

Methods: This is a large multicenter center, observational study enrolling unselected, consecutive patients with acute dyspnea presenting to the Emergency Department. Patient history, physical examination and laboratory parameters will be systematically obtained. Echocardiographic examinations will be routinely performed. Follow-up will be done at specified intervals (3, 6 and 12 months) after the initial presentation and risk predictors will be analyzed in multivariable regression models.

Expected Value of the Proposed Project: The data obtained during this project will help to further improve diagnostics and prognostics in patients with acute dyspnea and to better understand underlying pathology of cardiac dysfunction in this cohort.

Significance: The study aims are up-to-date and deal with an important health care problem in society. Conclusions drawn will significantly change care of patients with acute heart failure probably leading to a significant reduction of rehospitalization, morbidity and mortality.

Conditions

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Dyspnea

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* chief complaint of dyspnea (not penetrating injury or trauma related)
* subjects must be at least 18 years of age

Exclusion Criteria

* patient is unable or unwilling to give informed consent
* patient on hemodialysis
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Swiss National Science Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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University Hospital Basel

Basel, , Switzerland

Site Status

University Hospital Zurich

Zurich, , Switzerland

Site Status

Countries

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Switzerland

References

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Belkin M, Wussler DN, Shrestha S, Lopez-Ayala P, Nowak A, Michou E, Papachristou A, Popescu C, Strebel I, Kozhuharov N, Sabti Z, Netzer I, Zimmermann T, Diebold M, Breidthardt T, Mueller C. Prognostic value of health-related quality of life in patients with acute dyspnoea: a cohort study. Swiss Med Wkly. 2025 Apr 15;155:3785. doi: 10.57187/s.3785.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 40450733 (View on PubMed)

Belkin M, Wussler D, Michou E, Strebel I, Kozhuharov N, Sabti Z, Nowak A, Shrestha S, Lopez-Ayala P, Prepoudis A, Stefanelli S, Schafer I, Mork C, Albus M, Danier I, Simmen C, Zimmermann T, Diebold M, Breidthardt T, Mueller C. Prognostic Value of Self-Reported Subjective Exercise Capacity in Patients With Acute Dyspnea. JACC Adv. 2023 May 26;2(3):100342. doi: 10.1016/j.jacadv.2023.100342. eCollection 2023 May.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 38939580 (View on PubMed)

Breidthardt T, van Doorn WPTM, van der Linden N, Diebold M, Wussler D, Danier I, Zimmermann T, Shrestha S, Kozhuharov N, Belkin M, Porta C, Strebel I, Michou E, Gualandro DM, Nowak A, Meex SJR, Mueller C. Diurnal Variations in Natriuretic Peptide Levels: Clinical Implications for the Diagnosis of Acute Heart Failure. Circ Heart Fail. 2022 Jun;15(6):e009165. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.121.009165. Epub 2022 Jun 7.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 35670217 (View on PubMed)

Diebold M, Kozhuharov N, Wussler D, Strebel I, Sabti Z, Flores D, Shrestha S, Martin J, Staub D, Venge P, Mueller C, Breidthardt T. Mortality and pathophysiology of acute kidney injury according to time of occurrence in acute heart failure. ESC Heart Fail. 2020 Oct;7(5):3219-3224. doi: 10.1002/ehf2.12788. Epub 2020 Jun 24.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 32578962 (View on PubMed)

Wussler D, Kozhuharov N, Tavares Oliveira M, Bossa A, Sabti Z, Nowak A, Murray K, du Fay de Lavallaz J, Badertscher P, Twerenbold R, Shrestha S, Flores D, Nestelberger T, Walter J, Boeddinghaus J, Zimmermann T, Koechlin L, von Eckardstein A, Breidthardt T, Mueller C. Clinical Utility of Procalcitonin in the Diagnosis of Pneumonia. Clin Chem. 2019 Dec;65(12):1532-1542. doi: 10.1373/clinchem.2019.306787. Epub 2019 Oct 15.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31615771 (View on PubMed)

Wussler D, Kozhuharov N, Sabti Z, Walter J, Strebel I, Scholl L, Miro O, Rossello X, Martin-Sanchez FJ, Pocock SJ, Nowak A, Badertscher P, Twerenbold R, Wildi K, Puelacher C, du Fay de Lavallaz J, Shrestha S, Strauch O, Flores D, Nestelberger T, Boeddinghaus J, Schumacher C, Goudev A, Pfister O, Breidthardt T, Mueller C. External Validation of the MEESSI Acute Heart Failure Risk Score: A Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. 2019 Feb 19;170(4):248-256. doi: 10.7326/M18-1967. Epub 2019 Jan 29.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 30690646 (View on PubMed)

Badertscher P, Strebel I, Honegger U, Schaerli N, Mueller D, Puelacher C, Wagener M, Abacherli R, Walter J, Sabti Z, Sazgary L, Marbot S, du Fay de Lavallaz J, Twerenbold R, Boeddinghaus J, Nestelberger T, Kozhuharov N, Breidthardt T, Shrestha S, Flores D, Schumacher C, Wild D, Osswald S, Zellweger MJ, Mueller C, Reichlin T. Automatically computed ECG algorithm for the quantification of myocardial scar and the prediction of mortality. Clin Res Cardiol. 2018 Sep;107(9):824-835. doi: 10.1007/s00392-018-1253-z. Epub 2018 Apr 17.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 29667014 (View on PubMed)

Breidthardt T, Moreno-Weidmann Z, Uthoff H, Sabti Z, Aeppli S, Puelacher C, Stallone F, Twerenbold R, Wildi K, Kozhuharov N, Wussler D, Flores D, Shrestha S, Badertscher P, Boeddinghaus J, Nestelberger T, Gimenez MR, Staub D, Aschwanden M, Lohrmann J, Pfister O, Osswald S, Mueller C. How accurate is clinical assessment of neck veins in the estimation of central venous pressure in acute heart failure? Insights from a prospective study. Eur J Heart Fail. 2018 Jul;20(7):1160-1162. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.1111. Epub 2018 Jan 4. No abstract available.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 29314487 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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BASEL V

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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