Congestive Heart Failure in the Community
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Congestive Heart Failure in the Community
Background—Data are limited regarding the classification and prognosis of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) in the community. Methods and Results—Using the resources of the Rochester Epidemiology Project, we evaluated all patients receiving a first diagnosis of CHF in Olmsted County, Minnesota, in 1991 (n5216). Among these patients, 88% were $65 years and 49% were $80 years of age. T...
متن کاملCONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN CHILDREN: A SURVEY OF 114 PATIENTS
During a period of four years between June, IS, 1988 to June, IS, 1992 one hundred and fourteen patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) were admitted to the pediatric department of Taleghani General Hospital. During the above period, 192 patients with heart disease were hospitalized at this department and CHF was the cause of admission in 59.4% of them. Congenital heart disease (CHO) w...
متن کاملCongestive Heart Failure
The heart is composed of two independent pumping systems, one on the left side and one on the right. The right chamber, or right atrium, of the heart relaxes and expands to fill with blood that has returned from the body. (This relaxed action causes diastolic pressure, recorded as the second and lower number when measuring blood pressure). The used blood is poor in oxygen and rich in carbon dio...
متن کاملCongestive heart failure.
Patients with acute decompensated heart failure are usually critically ill and require immediate treatment. However, most are not volume overloaded. Emergency department (ED) management is based on rapid initiation of noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation and aggressive titration of nitrates. Afterload reduction with an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor can be considered. A diuretic s...
متن کاملCongestive Heart Failure
PROLOGUE The following paper presents the pathophysiology lecture content for congestive heart failure at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences. At the College, pathophysiology is a three credit course required for students in the PharmD, PA and BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences programs. The goal of this course is to give students a detailed understanding of the mechanisms involv...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.98.21.2282