INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to investigate the occurrence, the aetiology and the management of congestive heart failure in the cardiac centre of the St. Elizabeth catholic general hospital Shisong in Cameroon. METHODS Between November 2002 and November 2008, a population of 8121 patients was consulted in the referral cardiac centre of St. Elizabeth Catholic General Hospital. Of thes...

pressure in congestive heart failure in infancy. A retrospective study was made of the mean right atrial pressure in 131 infants with congenital heart disease. 56 are considered to have been in congestive heart failure at the time of cardiac catheterization, and 75 patients are considered not to have been so. The mean value for mean right atrial pressure was 7-7 mm. in the group who were in hea...

Objectives To compare the risk of death and recurrent congestive heart failure in elderly patients prescribed celecoxib, rofecoxib, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and to determine whether there are class differences between celecoxib and rofecoxib. Design Population based retrospective cohort study. Setting Databases of hospital discharge summaries and prescription drug claim...

Numerous reports suggest that about one-third of patients with congestive heart failure do not have any abnormality of left ventricular systolic function. These patients presumably have heart failure on the basis of ventricular diastolic dysfunction. Our objective was to develop a comprehensive overview of published reports of the prevalence, clinical features and prognosis of diastolic heart f...

T HE PURPOSE of this paper is to evaluate the influence of anticoagulant therapy on the incidence of thromboembolic complications and mortality in patients with congestive heart failure. The fact that patients with congestive heart failure are prone to develop thromboembolic complications is well known. Kinsey and White' found pulmonary infarction to be present in 24 of 50 autopsied cases of co...