Heart Failure: The Left Heart, Lungs, & Etiology from Chapter 8 / Lesson 9 33K Heart failure occurs when the heart malfunctions and does not pump blood correctly to the organs. Learn about congestive and left-sided heart failure, the lungs, and etiology of heart failure. Related...
The patients were at least 5 5 years old, and half of them were unlikely to survive more than 6 months (a), due to the following disorders: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; congestive heart failure (left ventricular ejection fraction below 25%); cirrhosis with oesophageal varices or an ...
Eight studies26-30,34,36,38 used advanced diseases with a life expectancy less than 1 year, such as metastatic cancer, end-stage congestive heart, or renal failure, as the inclusion criteria, while 7 studies31-33,35,37,39,40 had no exclusion criteria based on illness. The mean age of ...
Although no major adverse events from beta-blocker treatment have been reported, the incidence of potential side effects such as bronchospasm, hypoglycemia, heart block, bradycardia, and congestive heart failure is unknown due to the novelty of the treatment. It ha...