Defibrillation Threshold Testing and Long-term Follow-up in Chagas Disease

A retrospective study of 133 patients with chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy who received implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, primarily for secondary prevention. The dataset includes demographic, clinical, laboratory, Rassi score, and defibrillation threshold test data, with a mean clinical follow-up of 1728 days. The research was authored by Marco Paulo Cunha Campos and published via paperswithcode.

Use Cases

• Predicting defibrillation threshold values based on Rassi scores and clinical variables mentioned in the description
• Analyzing long-term survival and causes of death in Chagas cardiomyopathy patients with implanted devices
• Modeling the time to first ICD shock based on patient characteristics and arrhythmia events described
• Investigating the relationship between baseline left ventricular ejection fraction and clinical outcomes in this cohort

Strengths

• Includes data from 133 patients, providing a substantive cohort for analysis
• Features a long mean clinical follow-up period of 1728 days (approximately 4.7 years)
• Contains multiple clinical variables such as Rassi score, left ventricular ejection fraction, and defibrillation threshold test results

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

paperswithcode

Collection Method

Retrospective clinical evaluation