Cognitive Impairment in Patients With Heart Failure

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2011-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of the present study is threefold: investigating 1) specific cognitive impairments in patients with congestive heart failure, 2) whether cognitive impairments in patients with decompensated heart failure improve after medical recompensation and 3) whether cognitive functioning is related to the long-term prognosis (mortality, rehospitalisation) of those patients.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Saarland
• Treatments: Diuretics

Criteria

Criteria of decompensated heart failure patients

Inclusion Criteria:

• decompensated heart failure patients

• NYHA III-IV

• ejection fraction < 35%

Exclusion Criteria:

• psychosis

• dementia

• major depression

• reanimation (<3month)

• patients with assist device system