VT-LVAD Score: Clinical Data for Predicting Ventricular Arrhythmia in LVAD Patients

63 primary continuous-flow LVAD implantation cases from a single institution between January 2010 and March 2020 were analyzed. The dataset, created by Emmanuelle Massie, stratifies patients by VT-LVAD score to assess its ability to predict in-hospital ventricular arrhythmias and long-term ICD therapy outcomes.

Use Cases

• Validate the VT-LVAD risk score for predicting early postoperative ventricular arrhythmias based on patient stratification.
• Analyze the correlation between VT-LVAD score and hemodynamic instability during arrhythmic events.
• Assess long-term outcomes of ICD therapy, including appropriate/inappropriate shocks and mortality, in LVAD patients.
• Investigate the timing of postoperative ventricular arrhythmias, which the description notes occurred mainly in the first five days.

Strengths

• Includes 63 patient cases with detailed clinical stratification into two risk groups (30 low/intermediate, 33 high/very high).
• Covers a 10-year time range (2010-2020) from a single institution, providing longitudinal context.
• Contains specific outcome metrics like in-hospital VA rates (91% vs 43%) and long-term mortality (21.7% vs 37.0%).

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, requiring manual inspection after download.
• The 22.8 KB file size suggests a very small dataset, limiting statistical power for complex analyses.
• Data may reflect institutional bias inherent to the single-center, retrospective study design.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Emmanuelle Massie.

Collection Method

Retrospective study of patients who underwent LVAD implantation at a single institution.

Time Range

January 2010 to March 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 07:42:51; freshness should be verified.