Heart failure is a chronic disease characterized in part by intermittent exacerbations of worsening symptoms that increase in frequency with disease progression. Despite a trend towards reduced heart failure hospitalization over the last decade, heart failure remains the most common cause of hospitalization...
symptoms as follows: Although the understanding and treatment of this disease has come quite a long way since this report, the untreated symptoms and effect they have upon patients suffering with this process remain unchanged. It is estimated that heart failure afflicts approximately 5 million ...
Context. Approximately half of patients with overt congestive heart failure (CHF) have diastolic dysfunction without reduced ejection fraction (EF). Yet,
There is high mortality and morbidity associated with heart failure. Previously, aldosterone antagonists were used in patients with moderate to severe heart failure symptoms and low EForthose with reduced ejection fraction after a myocardial infarction based on RALES and EPHESUS trials, respectively (4...
This form of heart failure has been variously labeled as diastolic heart failure, heart failure with preserved systolic function, or more simply heart failure with a normal ejection fraction (HFNEF). The pathophysiology of HFNEF and the generation of symptoms remain controversial (3). Zile et al...
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in patients with heart failure (HF) and chronic coronary syndromes (CCS), contributes to the improvement of symptoms, biological parameters (lipids, blood glucose, inflammatory status, NT-proBNP) and echocardiographic (systolic and diastolic function, tissue Doppler parameters...
Fatigue is one of the most prevalent symptoms in persons with systolic heart failure (HF). There remains insufficient information about the physiological and psychosocial underpinnings of fatigue in HF. The specific aims of this study were to (1) determine the psychometric properties of 2 fatigue ...
Among patients with similar degrees of LV outflow obstruction and symptoms, women had higher indices of LV function and lower degrees of wall stress than men (7). Gender differences in the ventricular response to chronic systemic hypertension have also been identified 6, 12, 13. In a study ...
Even if systolic function is preserved, left ventricular filling in diastole can be impeded and resulted in elevation of filling pressure and symptoms of heart failure. This kind of heart failure is called diastolic heart failure. Nowadays, diastolic heart failure is referred to as heart failure ...
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