Congestive heart failure (CHF) and obesity are common medical conditions that have many complications and an increasing incidence in the United States. Presented here is a case of a disfiguring skin condition that visually highlights the dermatologic consequences of poorly controlled CHF and obesity. This condition will probably become more common as CHF and obesity increase in the US.

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a major public health problem in developed countries.1–3 It is a significant burden to patients, healthcare providers, and society.2–4 Several hospital-based reports have documented that a high proportion of patients with CHF have normal left ventricular (LV) systolic function,5 and 4 different epidemiological investigations further confirmed that nearly half o...

The prognosis of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) can be significantly improved with drug therapy targeted at the renin-angiotensin and adrenergic nervous system. beta-adrenergic blocking drugs, once contraindicated in CHF, have now been shown to improve survival in CHF.

I n the current issue of European Respiratory Journal, in a German multicentre study, SCHULZ et al. [1] report a high frequency of sleep apnoea in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). They also state that obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is more common in patients with heart failure than previously reported. Moving into the field of cardiology, the authors suggest that sleep studies shou...

Chen J, Yaniz-Galende E, Kagan HJ, Liang L, Hekmaty S, Giannarelli C, Hajjar R. Abnormalities of capillary microarchitecture in a rat model of coronary ischemic congestive heart failure. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 308: H830–H840, 2015. First published February 6, 2015; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00583.2014.—The aim of the present study is to explore the role of capillary disorder in coronary isc...

Previous studies have shown that congestive heart failure is characterized by sympathetic and reflex dysfunctions. Whether these alterations are potentiated in the presence of obesity and hypertension, two conditions that also display neuroadrenergic abnormalities and markedly increase the risk of heart failure, is unknown. In 14 healthy control subjects (C; age, 55.1 3.0 years; mean SEM), 13 l...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one of the most common diagnoses in elderly United States Medicare (⩾ age 65) population. This patient population has a particularly high readmission rate, with estimate 6-month rate topping 40%. The rapid rise mobile health (mHealth) presents promising new pathway for reducing hospital readmissions CHF, and, more generally, management chronic conditions. Using...

objective: congestive heart failure (chf) has become one of the most important health care problems in western countries. this article focuses on the outpatient diagnosis and management of heart failure. we want to compare the outcome of patients who were treated with high dose diuretics in the emergency department (ed) without admission with patients who were admitted to hospital for standard ...

Background Although the benefits of h-blocker therapy for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) are independent of pretreatment heart rate, patients with chronic systolic heart failure and low resting heart rates are often excluded from h-blocker therapy. We investigated the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of prophylactic pacemaker insertion to facilitate h-blocker use in these pati...