Liver Function Tests in Chronic Congestive Heart Failure

Liver function tests in chronic congestive heart failure.

It has been difficult for the clinician to evaluate quantitatively and qualitatively the degree of damage to the liver in the presence of congestive heart failure. This paper gives a statistical analysis of the results of various liver function tests on a group of patients with congestive heart failure. The analysis includes comparisons based on etiology, type of rhythm, duration of heart failu...

[Liver function in congestive heart failure].

Liver Function in Congestive Heart Failure

Jaundice, varying from a slight yellowish tinting of the sderae to a pronounced general icterus, is a common occurrence in congestive heart failure. A review of the literature leaves one with the impression that it is seen most frequently in patients with long standing congestive heart failure, particularly in failure associated with mitral and tricuspid valvular disease and in failure associat...

Deteriorated function of cutaneous microcirculation in chronic congestive heart failure

BACKGROUND Chronic congestive heart failure is a complex condition that leads to dysfunction in the peripheral microcirculation. We have previously shown that vascular reactivity is reduced with increasing age. In this study, we examined a group of very old patients with severe chronic heart failure to test the hypothesis that vascular function is further compromised by a combination of heart f...

CONGESTIVE 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...