Analysis of one-year follow-up results and treatment costs of patients with PTE in a tertiary care center

Introduction: Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) is a life-threatening disease, with substantial treatment-related complications, difficult follow-up, treatment compliance, and high costs. This study aimed to assess treatment costs with various maintenance therapy regimens, complications, and patient adherence to treatment over a one-year follow-up period.

Materials and Methods: This observational, prospective study included 142 patients with PTE who received maintenance anticoagulation therapy between November 2020 and March 2023. The patients were observed at three-month intervals for a year. Possible treatment-related complications, recurrence, mortality, and treatment costs were recorded.

Result: Our results showed that there was no significant difference in bleeding risk based on the drugs used for initial or maintenance treatment. In maintenance therapy, low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH), warfarin, and direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) treatment regimens had similar treatment adherence and comparable efficacy and safety in terms of recurrence and bleeding (p> 0.05). Four patients (2.8%) were diagnosed with chronic thromboembolic disease. The one-year mortality rate was 24.6% (n= 35), of which 82.9% (n= 29) occurred within the first three months. Hospital mortality rates with the different maintenance therapies were 8.8% in the LMWH group, 5.7% in the warfarin group, and 3.2% in the DOAC group. The annual cost of using LMWH was higher than that of rivaroxaban, apixaban, and warfarin (p< 0.001) while there was no significant cost difference between DOACs and warfarin (p> 0.05).

Conclusions: In our study, the LMWH, warfarin, and DOAC treatment regimens had similar efficacy, safety, and patient compliance. In terms of cost, LMWH was the costliest while DOAC and warfarin were similar.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:71

Enthalten in:

Tuberkuloz ve toraks - 71(2023), 4 vom: 25. Dez., Seite 390-399

Sprache:

Englisch

Weiterer Titel:

Üçüncü basamak bir merkezde PTE’li hastaların bir yıllık takip sonuçları ve tedavi maliyetlerinin analizi

Beteiligte Personen:

Ergül, Ersin [VerfasserIn]
Yılmazel Uçar, Elif [VerfasserIn]
Araz, Ömer [VerfasserIn]
Aksakal, Alperen [VerfasserIn]
Kerget, Buğra [VerfasserIn]
Sağlam, Leyla [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

5Q7ZVV76EI
Anticoagulants
Heparin, Low-Molecular-Weight
Journal Article
Observational Study
Warfarin

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 29.12.2023

Date Revised 29.12.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.5578/tt.20239607

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM366426575