Introduction: Adherence to treatment programs is a major challenge in patients with chronic heart failure. In the event of non-compliance, these patients will be associated with adverse health outcomes. Since the interventions such as training to improve adherence to health regimens have a special place, this study aimed to compare the effect of the patients’ education with or without their fam...

Background and Objectives: Heart failure is more common in the elderly than in the general population. Among the non-drug treatments, the easiest and most comprehensible method is direct implementation of sports program. Due to high cost of hospital care for patients with heart failure and complications, this study examined the effects of walking as a form of rehabilitation program. The subject...

Introduction: Young pregnant woman (32 weeks) following one-month illnesses, including peripheral edema, paresthesia and shortness of breath, for which no specific diagnosis was made in the evaluations; she was hospitalized with severe respiratory distress and pulmonary edema. Re-examination revealed severe systolic heart failure (left ventricular ejection fraction: 10-15%) with preeclampsia. A...