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NCT Number: NCT07283809

European Unified Registries for Heart Care Evaluation and Randomised Trials Italy

Major advances in cardiovascular medicine have been driven by innovations in basic research in biological and technical sciences. Despite the clear evidence regarding the treatments that have been demonstrated to be useful to improve patients' outcomes, their transferability to everyday clinical practice seems to be at least suboptimal. The European Society of Cardiology (ESC), therefore, planned to support a program, denominated EuroHeart, for continuous data collection of standardized and/or harmonized variables in common cardiovascular diseases, such as ACS, HF and A Fib. EuroHeart is an observational, prospective, multicentre initiative with continuous data collection in consecutive patients with ACS, HF and A Fib to support continuous quality of care improvement through the evaluation of quality indicators (QIs) defined by the ESC. All patients included in the EuroHeart initiative, will enter a 12 month longitudinal follow-up with the collection of clinical events and clinical status data.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Ospedale Valdarno S. Maria Della Gruccia - U.O. Malattie Cardiovascolari, Montevarchi, AREZZO, Italy

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients ≥18 years of age.
  • Males and females at birth.
  • At least one of the following clinical conditions:
  • Hospitalization for Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)
  • Heart failure (HF, outpatients, and/or inpatients)
  • Atrial fibrillation (A Fib, outpatients and/or inpatients)
  • Signed informed consent for the study and for privacy.

Exclusion criteria

  • patients who do not sign the consent to participate in the project and/or Privacy

Treatment and study plan

Adherence to European Society of Cardiology (ESC) quality indicators

Other

EuroHeart is an initiative of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) supporting continuous quality-of-care improvement through individual patient data collection. The present registry component refers specifically to the Italian implementation of the EuroHeart programme, aimed at monitoring and improving adherence to ESC quality indicators within Italian clinical practice.

Primary outcomes

  1. Adherence to ESC Quality indicators (STEMI patients reperfused)

    Time frame: From enrollment to 12 months follow-up

    Proportion of patients with STEMI reperfused among those eligible (onset of symptoms to diagnosis <12 hours)

  2. Adherence to ESC Quality indicators (STEMI patients reperfused <90 min)

    Time frame: From enrollment to 12 months follow-up

    Proportion of patients with STEMI who receive timely reperfusion with PCI (wire crossing) within 90 minutes from initial diagnostic ECG

  3. Adherence to ESC Quality indicators (coronary angiography in NSTEMI patients within 24 hours)

    Time frame: From enrollment to 12 months follow-up

    Rate of NSTEMI patients who receive invasive within 24 hours from their diagnosis

  4. Adherence to ESC Quality indicators (radial access)

    Time frame: From enrollment to 12 months follow-up

    Use of radial access in case of invasive strategy for patients with STEMI and NSTEMI

  5. Adherence to ESC Quality indicators (time to reperfusion in STEMI patients)

    Time frame: From enrollment to 12 months follow-up

    The time between the initial STEMI diagnosis and arterial access (absolute value) for primary PCI

  6. Adherence to ESC Quality indicators (pre-discharge LVEF evaluation in STEMI and NSTEMI patients)

    Time frame: From enrollment to 12 months follow-up

    The proportion of patients with STEMI and NSTEMI who have an assessment of their left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) before hospital discharge

  7. Adherence to ESC Quality indicators (in hospital LDL-c evaluation in STEMI and NSTEMI patients)

    Time frame: From enrollment to 12 months follow-up

    The proportion of patients with STEMI and NSTEMI who have their LDL cholesterol measured during hospitalization

  8. Adherence to ESC Quality indicators (DAPT prescription at discharge in STEMI and NSTEMI patients)

    Time frame: From enrollment to 12 months follow-up

    Proportion of patients with STEMI and NSTEMI discharged on dual antiplatelet therapy

  9. Adherence to ESC Quality indicators (LLA prescription at discharge in STEMI and NSTEMI patients)

    Time frame: From enrollment to 12 months follow-up

    Proportion of patients discharged from hospital on Lipid Lowering Agents (LLA)

  10. Adherence to ESC Quality indicators (ACEi/ARB/ARNI prescription at discharge in patients with LVEF ≤40%)

    Time frame: From enrollment to 12 months follow-up

    Proportion of patients with LVEF ≤40% who are discharged from hospital on angiotensin converting enzymes inhibitors (ACEi) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) or angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor (ARNI)

  11. Adherence to ESC Quality indicators (Beta blockers prescription at discharge in patients with LVEF ≤40%)

    Time frame: From enrollment to 12 months follow-up

    Proportion of patients with LVEF ≤40% who are discharged from hospital on beta blockers.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular events during follow-up

    Time frame: 12 months follow-up

    Proportion of patients with clinical events at 12 months

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Aldo P Maggioni, MD

CONTACT

[email protected]

055/5101361

Furio Colivicchi, MD

CONTACT

[email protected]

055/51013741

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Heart Care Foundation

Other

Registry information

Official study title

European Unified Registries for Heart Care Evaluation and Randomised Trials

Acronym: EuroHeart ITA

Important dates

Study start
2024
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2027
First posted
Dec 16, 2025
Registry last updated
Jan 12, 2026

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