Kyoto Congestive Heart Failure Study
Kyoto Congestive Heart Failure Study
The purpose of this study is to investigate the patient characteristics, selection of
 treatment, and factors associated with clinical outcomes in Japanese patients with acutely
 decompensated congestive heart failure.
Congestive heart failure (CHF) has been markedly increasing in Japan due to the rapid aging
 of the society and the Westernization of lifestyle that facilitates the development of
 coronary artery disease. The prognosis of patients with CHF still remains poor, despite the
 recent advances in medical and surgical treatment. Elderly heart failure patients with
 preserved ejection and multiple comorbidity may account for significant portion among CHF
 patients in the real world clinical practice, however; most of previous prospective cohort
 studies excluded these patients. The KCHF registry, an all-comer, prospective, multicenter
 registry, was designed to investigate all patients who admitted to the hospital due to acutly
 decompensated CHF. The aim of this study was to clarify the patients characteristics ,
 selection of treatment, and prognosis of patients with acutly decompensated CHF in the
 real-world clinical practice in Japan.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  All patients who admitted to the participating centers due to acutly decompensated CHF
 defined by modified Framingham criteria

 -  Patients who underwent heart failure treatment including intravenus drug

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  none