Discussing Prognosis in Heart Failure

Heart failure prognosis: comorbidities matter.

BACKGROUND Prior risk prediction models have included a selective group of broad comorbidities in scoring prognosis of heart failure (HF) patients. OBJECTIVE We examined whether scoring a comprehensive set of comorbidities separately, could improve the performance and accuracy of predicting HF prognosis. METHODS This is a cross-validated, longitudinal, retrospective, observational study. Da...

Evidence of Improving Prognosis in Heart Failure

Background—Contemporary survival in unselected patients with heart failure and the population impact of newer therapies have not been widely studied. Therefore, we have documented case-fatality rates (CFRs) over a recent 10-year period. Methods and Results—In Scotland, all hospitalizations and deaths are captured on a single database. We have studied case fatality in all patients admitted with ...

Prognosis of emergency room stabilization of decompensated congestive heart failure with high dose lasix

Objective: Congestive heart failure (CHF) has become one of the most important health care problems in western countries. This article focuses on the outpatient diagnosis and management of heart failure. We want to compare the outcome of patients who were treated with high dose diuretics in the emergency department (ED) without admission with patients who were admitted to hospi...

Heart Failure: Biomarkers of Diagnosis and Prognosis

The natriuretic peptides (NP), including the precursor N-terminal proBNP (NT-pro-BNP) of biologically active B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) represent the current standard for identifying Heart Failure. In addition, the troponins serve to help identify Heart Failure patients at high risk for adverse outcomes. For nearly the last decade, emergency physicians have used these biomarkers to diagno...

Epidemiology, aetiology, and prognosis of heart failure.