HEART FAILURE: The diagnosis of heart failure

The diagnosis of heart failure.

The Prevalence of Anemia in Elderly With Systolic Heart Failure

Objectives: Anemia is prevalent in heart failures and is an independent risk factor for adverse clinical outcomes in patients with CHF. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of anemia in elderly with systolic heart failure hospitalized in Alborz Hospital of Karaj in 2009. Methods & Materials: This is a descriptive retrospective study that reviewed 154 medical records o...

Clinical Diagnosis of Heart Failure

Hospital Physician November/December 2009 H eart failure is a common clinical syndrome that results from the impaired ability of the ventricle to fill with or eject blood. The term heart failure is preferred over the older term congestive heart failure because not all patients with heart failure have volume overload. Heart failure results from multiple causes, including coronary artery disease,...

Emerging Drug Therapies for Heart Failure

Heart failure is associated with high morbidity and mortality and is proving to be an economic burden in developing countries. A number of therapeutic agents are presently employed in heart failure; but they are not sufficient to control symptoms of heart failure. Moreover, the prevalence of chronic heart failure is progressively increasing and thus there is a continuing need to develop effecti...

Heart Failure Diagnosis and Investigation

Typical symptoms: breathlessness, fatigue, ankle swelling. Typical signs: tachycardia, tachypnoea, pulmonary rales, pleural effusion, raised jugular venous pressure (JVP), peripheral oedema, hepatomegaly. Objective evidence of a structural or functional abnormality of the heart at rest: cardiomegaly, third heart sound, cardiac murmurs, echocardiogram abnormalities, raised natriuretic peptide co...