Table 3 In-hospital course and short- and long-term outcome.

From: Incidence, determinants and prognostic relevance of dyspnea at admission in patients with Takotsubo syndrome: results from the international multicenter GEIST registry

Variable

Overall

(n = 1,071)

Dyspnea

(n = 316)

No dyspnea

(n = 755)

p value

In-hospital course

In-hospital complications

167 (16%)

90 (29%)

77 (10%)

 < 0.001

 Pulmonary edema

77 (7%)

54 (17%)

23 (3%)

 < 0.001

 Cardiogenic shock

89 (8%)

37 (12%)

52 (7%)

0.009

 In-hospital death

30 (3%)

16 (5%)

14 (2%)

0.004

In-hospital treatment

 Invasive ventilation (960/1,071)a

141 (15%)

75 (27%)

66 (10%)

 < 0.001

 IABP (1,056/1,071)a

15 (1.4%)

5 (1.6%)

10 (1.3%)

0.778

Lenght of stay

7 (5, 10)

8 (5, 11)

6 (5, 9)

 < 0.001

All-cause mortality

Follow up (days)

576 (27,1668)

486 (14,1607)

605 (36,1733)

0.193

Long-term

155 (14%)

69 (22%)

86 (11%)

 < 0.001

  1. Data are presented as no. (%), median (interquartile range).
  2. Bold values are statistically significant.
  3. IABP intra-aortic balloon pump.
  4. aNumber of patients with available data.