Monitoring Heart Failure

Remote monitoring in heart failure.

Hemodynamic monitoring in acute heart failure.

Hemodynamic monitoring has moved in the last few years from being the holy grail of evaluating patients with acute heart failure to being all but extinct. Recent studies have not demonstrated any sustained benefits from right heart catheterization, and some studies have even suggested harm due to adverse events related to this invasive procedure. It is possible that this lack of efficacy is rel...

Home monitoring for heart failure management.

With a prevalence of 5.8 million in the United States alone, heart failure (HF) is a common syndrome associated with substantial morbidity, mortality, and healthcare expenditures. Close to 1 million HF hospitalizations occur annually in the United States, with the majority of these resulting from worsening congestion in patients previously diagnosed with HF. An estimated $37.2 billion is spent ...

Echocardiographic monitoring of patients with heart failure.

Twenty seven patients diagnosed as having systolic heart failure with Ejection Fraction (EF) of less than 40% by echocardiography were monitored over a period of 3 years. The monitored parameters included clinical symptoms, diastolic dysfunction, therapies and survival during three years of treatment. The results indicate a beneficial effect of treatment with high doses of ACE-inhibitors, spiro...

Heart failure monitoring with implantable defibrillators.

Heart failure is one of the most frequent diseases and a leading cause for hospital admission and death in Germany and other industrialized countries. Two types of impedance sensors are presented that promise to allow improved disease monitoring and hence better therapy adaptation in heart failure patients with an implanted defibrillator: thoracic impedance to estimate the lung fluid status of ...