Many of the decisions necessary at the end of life require disclosure that "this is the end of life." To withhold that knowledge until some arbitrary time before death robs patients of the ability to deal with financial issues, issues of independence, issues of unresolved personal or family ...
Eleven patients with refractory class IV congestive heart failure who were not candidates for cardiac transplantation were given iv dobutamine therapy on an outpatient basis. All patients underwent hemodynamic evaluation to confirm a beneficial response to low dose (5 micrograms/kg.min) dobutamine and ...
Among Cardiovascular Health Study participants who died from coronary heart disease, the authors compared those with incident and definite congestive heart failure (CHF) (n=60; 15%) and those with prevalent or probable CHF (n =70; 17.5%) to those with no history of CHF (n=198; 50%) conc...
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For the heart, from the start, VETMEDIN chewable tablets are indicated for the treatment of congestive heart failure in dogs.
Edema and decreased renal blood Flow in patients with chronic congestive heart failure: evidence of Forward failure as the primary cause of Edema. J Clin Invest. 1946;25(3):389–400. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Szymanski MK, de Boer RA, Navis GJ, van Gilst WH, Hillege...
of these patients, additional weeks or months with their families can be extremely meaningful. Furthermore, a much more common scenario involves people with an advanced chronic illness, such as a patient with congestive heart failure. Such patients may spend years cycling in and out of the ...
Axial flow devices, such as the DeBakey VAD, may open new doors for smaller patients and children, as well as improve the current standard of care for adults who require long-term circulatory support. 展开 关键词: congestive heart failure ventricular assist device ...
The PREDICT (prediction of first onset of congestive heart failure in dogs with degenerative mitral valve disease) study identified several indicators of imminent onset of CHF such as: a LVIDd /Ao ratio >3 and a serum level of the N terminal of the pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP)...
Incident Atrial Fibrillation and the Risk of Congestive Heart Failure, Myocardial Infarction, End-Stage Kidney Disease, and Mortality Among Patients With a... Sood, Manish M.,McCallum,etc.Incident Atrial Fibrillation and the Risk of Congestive Heart Failure, Myocardial Infarction, End-Stage Kidney ...