... summary of the guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of acute heart failure: the Task Force on Acute HeartFailureof the European Society of Cardiology Eur Heart J 2005, Page 12 of 14 10 ... Table The three clinicalheartfailure scenarios and the clinical profiles in each scenario Clinical scenarios Clinical profiles in each scenario Precardiotomy heartfailure Precardiotomy crash ... Tavazzi L; EuroHeart Survey Investigators; HeartFailure Association, European Society of Cardiology: EuroHeart Failure Survey II (EHFS II): a survey on hospitalized acute heartfailure patients:...
... Furthermore, the shortening of diastolic time is an often overlooked mechanism of cardiac dysfunction The duration of diastole is a principal determinant of myocardial perfusion and of the blood volume ... a reduced myocardial perfusion reserve and diastolic heart failure, are an integral part of systolic heartfailure any abnormal shortening of diastolic time, particularly during exercise, should ... effect of exercise on heart rate corrected diastolic time in IDCM patients yielded the following findings: LBBB was a major determinant of the duration of LV systole, irrespective of the presence of...
... evidence of chronic heartfailure and to investigate other potential causes of breathlessness Determining the underlying cause ofheartfailure Much of the evidence base for the management ofheartfailure ... digoxin should be stopped SUMMARY OF THE USE OF MAJOR DRUG CLASSES FOR TREATMENT OFHEARTFAILURE The use of the major classes of drugs for the control of chronic heartfailure is summarised in Table ... sleep apnea and heartfailure trial CHARM Candesartan in Heart failure: Assessment of Reduction in Mortality trial CHD coronary heart disease CHF chronic heartfailure CHSS Chest Heart and Stroke...
... for acute exacerbation of chronic heart failure: a randomized controlled trial Jama 2002, 287:1541-7 Petersen JW, Felker GM: Inotropes in the management of acute heartfailure Crit Care Med 2008, ... circulation increases with the severity ofheart failure, and the high plasma level of interleukin-6 is an important prognostic predictor in patients with congestive heartfailure J Am Coll Cardiol 1998, ... and anti-apoptotic effects of levosimendan in decompensated heart failure: a novel mechanism of drug-induced improvement in contractile performance of the failing heart Curr Med Chem Cardiovasc...
... Anastasiadis et al Journal of Translational Medicine 2011, 9:12 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/9/1/12 Page of Chronic ischemic heartfailure epidemic Emergence of “destination therapy” ... Role of stem cell therapy in ischemic heartfailure Ischemic heart disease remains a major health care challenge, and progenitor cell-based therapy holds potential for treating the spectrum of ... some degree of myocardial regeneration from the native heart tissue, there is a diverse implication of regeneration among scientists [17] Research focused on the mechanism of action of stem cells...
... renin, galectin-3 [16-18], some of which are also important tools in the diagnosis and pathogenesis ofheart failure, in the identification of subjects at risk ofheart failure, risk stratification, ... patients with chronic stable heartfailure for six consecutive months were enrolled at the Cardiology Unit of the Catholic University of Sacred Heartof Rome out of 210 patients admitted to the ... with congestive heartfailureHeart 2002, 88:296-7 Boerrigter G, Costello-Boerrigter LC, Burnett JC Jr: Natriuretic peptides in the diagnosis and management of chronic heartfailureHeart Fail Clin...
... renin, galectin-3 [16-18], some of which are also important tools in the diagnosis and pathogenesis ofheart failure, in the identification of subjects at risk ofheart failure, risk stratification, ... patients with chronic stable heartfailure for six consecutive months were enrolled at the Cardiology Unit of the Catholic University of Sacred Heartof Rome out of 210 patients admitted to the ... with congestive heartfailureHeart 2002, 88:296-7 Boerrigter G, Costello-Boerrigter LC, Burnett JC Jr: Natriuretic peptides in the diagnosis and management of chronic heartfailureHeart Fail Clin...
... Freemantle N, Cleland JGF: The impact ofheartfailure on health-related quality of life data acquired in the baseline phase of the CARE-HF study European Journal ofHeartFailure 2005, 7:243-251 17 Pickard ... importance of measuring QOL as an outcome in stroke studies Conclusions The impact of stroke on individuals’ quality of life is significantly greater in comparison to patients with congestive heartfailure ... measure of health-related quality of life after stroke Stroke 1997, 28:1876-1882 12 Kopec JA, Willison KD: A comparative review of four preference-weighted measures of health-related quality of life...
... Page of Intra atrial manifestation of the HCC constitutes a life threatening condition The major causes of death are either sudden pulmonary embolism of the thrombus or acute obstruction of the ... conclusion, when a patient with a history of chronic hepatic disease presents with symptoms of right heartfailure one must be cautious and should bear in mind that right heart involvement from a malignant ... variety ofclinical manifestations caused by the atrial neoplasm and those are mainly tumor-size dependent Patients may have no symptoms, dyspnea due to pulmonary embolism, syncope, or heart failure...
... DJ, O’Connor CM: Reduction in heartfailure events by the addition of a clinical pharmacist to the heartfailure management team: results of the Pharmacist in HeartFailure Assessment Recommendation ... E: Compliance and effectiveness of one year’s home telemonitoring The report of a pilot study of patients with chronic heartfailure European Journal ofHeartFailure 2001, 3(6):723-30 36 Pugh ... investigators Disagreements were resolved by consensus of the group of investigators Assessment of leveraging of characteristics of CAS Eligible publications of organizational interventions as defined by...
... Mosterd A, Hoes AW: Clinical epidemiology ofheartfailureHeart 2007, 93:1137-1146 Mosterd A, Hoes AW, de Bruyne MC, Deckers JW, Linker DT, Hofman A, Grobbee DE: Prevalence ofheartfailure and left ... diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heartfailure 2008: the Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic HeartFailure 2008 of the European Society of Cardiology Developed ... representative adult population Eur Heart J 2002, 23:1867-1876 Task Force for Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic HeartFailure 2008 of European Society of Cardiology, Dickstein K, Cohen-Solal...
... central health professional The discipline of the most central health professional was also noted A high centrality of the health professional can contribute to coordination of care through connection ... size of networks, network centralization of medical treatment and advice, degree centrality of health professionals and patients, and in overlap of medical and advice networks Centrality of the ... health professional, where in reality more health professionals might be involved per discipline This could result in underestimation of the total number of involved health professionals From a clinical...
... mild heartfailure and include patients treated with diuretics who not have heartfailure Incidence ofheartfailure The Framingham data show an age adjusted annual incidence ofheartfailureof ... longitudinal source of data on the epidemiology ofheartfailure Contemporary studies of the epidemiology ofheartfailure in United Kingdom Study Diagnostic criteria Hillingdon heartfailure study ... studies of the epidemiology ofheartfailure and left ventricular dysfunction have been conducted, including a study of the incidence ofheartfailure in one west London district (Hillingdon heart failure...
... with heartfailure Lancet 1997;349:747-52 x Remme WJ The treatment ofheartfailure The Task Force of the Working Group on HeartFailureof the European Society of Cardiology Eur Heart J 1997;18:736-53 ... course of alcoholic cardiomyopathy Ann Intern Med 1974;80:293-7 x The Task Force of the Working Group on HeartFailureof the European Society of Cardiology Guidelines on the treatment ofheartfailure ... the natural course of chronic heartfailure The Munich mild heartfailure study showed that ACE inhibitors combined with standard treatment slowed the progression ofheartfailure in patients...
... 2000 www.bmj.com Clinical review Downloaded from bmj.com on October 2006 ABC ofheartfailureHeartfailure in general practice F D R Hobbs, R C Davis, G Y H Lip Management ofheartfailure in general ... mortality Nurse management ofheartfailure has implications for the provision of care in patients with chronic heart failure, sharing the increasing burden ofheartfailure Specialist nurses ... survey ofheartfailure in general practice The west Birmingham heartfailure project Eur J Gen Pract 1997;3:85-9 x Remes J, Miettinen H, Reunanen A, Pyorala K Validity ofclinical diagnosis of heart...
... are listed at the end of this volume Surgical Options for the Treatment ofHeartFailure edited by ROY G MASTERS, MD FRCSC Division of Cardiac Surgery; University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ... overall knowledge of the management of the heartfailure patient and provides a useful and worthwhile read for every cardiac surgeon of the day Wilbert J Keon University of Ottawa Heart Institute ... impression of adverse outcome in the face of severe right heart failure, we undertook to investigate this factor specifically We used RV HF on liRNA scan as our numerical indicator of right heart failure...
... mechanisms in failing hearts HeartFailure Reviews 1997;2:55-65 Moser DK Palhophysiolog>' ofheartfailure update: the role of neurohumoral activation in the progression ofheartfailure Am As.soc ... fraction and the prognosis ofheartfailure Sarcolemma (SL) in failing hearts The status of the Ca"^ channels may depend on the type ol' heartfailure Reports of increased density of Ca'* channels from ... Epidemiological aspects ofheartfailure Cardiol Clin 1989;7:1-9 Guidelines for the evaluation and management ofheartfailure Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association...
... of congestive heartfailure has improved dramatically as well, especially in the recognition of the importance of treatment with aftcrload reduction This treatment was not available to many of ... the natural history of their regurgitant lesions than previously, largely as a result of identification of appropriate noninvasive indicators of impending decompensation of the left ventricle, ... mechanism of the postoperative depression of left ventricular performance still remains speculative despite the significant number of experimental and clinical studies^' The reduction of ejection...
... symptoms ofheartfailure ^' ^ Medical therapy has had a dramatic impact on the symptoms ofheart failure, with less but still significant impact on survival, challenging previous assumptions of when ... entire circumference of tlie base of the aiiemysin at tlie junction of scar and noirnal myocardiuriL The degi^ee of tigblening of this suture will detenmne the final size of the remaining opening ... chance of improvement than cardiomyopathy of other etiologies.' Symptoms often improve remarkably after assisted diuresis post-partum of the excess volume of water accumulated during pregnancy Heart...
... other end of the spectrum ofheart failure, there is now increasing evidence that early intervention can reduce the development ofheartfailure ^*'" Even after the symptoms ofheartfailure have ... pcnod of cardiac and clinical compensation ^ ' ' '"' In particular, recognition of the contributions of mitral regurgitation and left ventricular distortion to be progression ofheartfailure ... transplantation for treatment of advanced heart failure: effective use of vasodilators and diuretics J Heart Lung Transplant 1991:10:468 21 Stevenson LW, Perloff JK The limited reliability of physical signs...