What Is the Prognosis for Fainting? The prognosis of a person who has fainted depends greatly on the underlying cause, age of patient and available treatments. Cardiac syncope carries the highest chance of sudden death especially in the elderly. Fainting that is not associated with cardiac or neu...
"The prognosis is actually quite good, assuming that the procedure is limited to the aortic valve they are replacing," said Dr. Timothy Gardner, president of the American Heart Association and medical director of the Center for Heart and Vascular Health for the Christiana Care Health System. "I...
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a common condition with a poor prognosis. It is associated with debilitating limiting symptoms, even with optimal modern medical management. Foremost among these symptoms is severe exercise intolerance with pronounced fatigue and dyspnoea at low exercise workloads. The ...
Heart failureis the inability of the heart muscle to adequately pump the fluid within the blood vessels. This can cause a variety of problems, but most notably, fluid backs up into the lungs and other organs causing them to fail. This water overload can cause leakage into the peritoneal cav...
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 to this Question What is the prognosis for a pulmonary embolism?
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a common condition with a poor prognosis. It is associated with debilitating limiting symptoms, even with optimal modern medical management. Foremost among these symptoms is severe exercise intolerance with pronounced fatigue and dyspnoea at low exercise workloads. The UK...
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The obesity is a conventional cardiovascular risk factor. Obesity has detrimental effects on heart failure, but has been found to be paradoxically associated with improved survival. The obesity paradox remains controversial in the literatures. There are various underlying mechanisms to explain the obesity...
Heart Failure (HF) is one of the leading problems in cardiology practice today. Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is a significant caus
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