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Swiss National Registry of Adults With Congenital Heart Disease

— Observational Congenital Heart Disease Congenital Heart Defect

For patients and families

In plain language

An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.

What is being studied
This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Congenital Heart Disease, Congenital Heart Defect. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
What needs checking
Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
Where it takes place
Switzerland
Next step
Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →

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Official title

Nationales Register Zur Erfassung Von Erwachsenen Mit Angeborenen Herzfehlern

Overview

Due to successes in the last decades in pediatric heart surgery and cardiology, 90-95% of the children with congenital heart disease reach adult age.This results in an increasing number of adults or "grown-ups" with congenital heart disease (ACHD or GUCH patients) that require special health care organization and training programmes. Long term complications of these GUCH patients and optimum treatment strategies are still poorly known. The aim of this registry is to collect quantitative and qualitative data regarding GUCH patients treated in specialised centres in Switzerland.

Detailed description

The SWISS GUCH registry will capture epidemiologic data, diagnosis, type of earlier treatment / intervention and cardiac complications. Following each visit, the cardiac complications will be captured as well as the mortality.

Every GUCH patient coming for a visit in one of the specialized organisation participating to the registry will be asked to participate. After signing the informed consent form, the patient data will be coded and captured in a web-based data base (secuTrial®).

Pooling the data from the different centres will enable a nation wide register to be established. More robust data on the size and composition of the GUCH population will be obtained. Also long term prognosis of specific patient group will be derived.

Primary outcome measures

  • Mortality [Time frame: 1 year and yearly up to 20 years]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
  • Cardial complications [Time frame: 1 year and yearly up to 20 years]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

Adult (above 18 years of age) with congenital heart disease, treated in one of the Swiss centre with specialized organisation for GUCH patients.

Signed informed consent. Patients with trisomy 21: the parents or legal guardian will have to give the consent.

Exclusion criteria

None

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: No

Study design

Observational model
Cohort

Study locations

Switzerland · 6 centers
  • Basel University Hospital — Basel
  • Bern University Hospital Inselspital — Bern
  • Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève HUG — Geneva
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois CHUV — Lausanne
  • Kantonsspital St.Gallen — Sankt Gallen
  • University Hospital Zurich — Zurich

Publications

  • Moons P, Bovijn L, Budts W, Belmans A, Gewillig M. Temporal trends in survival to adulthood among patients born with congenital heart disease from 1970 to 1992 in Belgium. Circulation. 2010 Nov 30;122(22):2264-72. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.946343. Epub 2010 Nov 22. PMID 21098444
  • Hoffman JI, Kaplan S. The incidence of congenital heart disease. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2002 Jun 19;39(12):1890-900. doi: 10.1016/s0735-1097(02)01886-7. PMID 12084585
  • van der Linde D, Konings EE, Slager MA, Witsenburg M, Helbing WA, Takkenberg JJ, Roos-Hesselink JW. Birth prevalence of congenital heart disease worldwide: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Nov 15;58(21):2241-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.08.025. PMID 22078432
  • Arslani K, Roffler N, Zurek M, Greutmann M, Schwerzmann M, Bouchardy J, Rutz T, Ehl NF, Jost CA, Tobler D; SACHER Investigators. Patterns of Incidence Rates of Cardiac Complications in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease. Can J Cardiol. 2018 Dec;34(12):1624-1630. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2018.09.010. Epub 2018 Sep 29. PMID 30527151

Identifiers

NCT: NCT02258724 · AO_2026_00031

Primary sources (government registries)

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