The Change of Cardio-Thoracic Ratio and Outcome in Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
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Evaluation and management of patients with acute decompensated heart failure.
Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) has emerged as a major public health problem over the past 2 decades. Heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of hospitalization in patients older than 65 years of age. In-hospital mortality is excessive and readmission is disturbingly common, despite advances in pharmacotherapy and device therapy for HF. The large direct costs associated with caring for...
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eart failure has emerged over the past several decades as a major global public health problem, with rising prevalence reported in both industrialized and developing nations alike.1–6 In addition to the enormous costs in human suffering and loss of productivity, heart failure has imposed an increasingly heavy financial burden on health-care systems throughout the world. Although highly effectiv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cardiac Failure
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1071-9164
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2015.08.271