Heart Failure
Heart Failure
... a heart failure specialist after four weeks of stable optimal standard ...and heart rate at rest should not be allowed to fall below 50 beats per ...
8
Pacing in congestive heart failure
... chronic heart failure. Despite this, severe heart failure remains a syndrome associated with very high mortality, profound reduction in quality of life, and frequent ...
8
Managing Patients With Heart Failure: A Qualitative Study of Multidisciplinary Teams With Specialist Heart Failure Nurses
... In each location, education represented a consider- able portion of the specialist heart failure nurse’s role. Participants agreed that education could be best deliv- ered within the context of the ongoing ...
7
Genetics of heart rate in heart failure patients (GenHRate)
... Putting this study in context of pre-existing work, we were able to replicate one of the previously published genetic loci, in the gene GJA1, which had been reported to be associated with resting HR in multiple studies. ...
11
Understanding and Treating Heart Failure
... have heart failure, your heart may not pump enough blood to the lungs and other parts of the body during ...the heart is not pumping well, it can cause a backup of ...
16
A Patients Guide to Heart Failure
... There is no reason why you should not still enjoy an active sex life. If you have any worries, please discuss them with your doctor or nurse. Some drugs used in treating heart failure can cause impotence, ...
20
Tolvaptan, hyponatremia, and heart failure
... Abstract: Tolvaptan is the first FDA-approved oral V 2 receptor antagonist for the treatment of euvolemic and hypervolemic hyponatremia, in patients with conditions associated with free water excess such as heart ...
15
AEROBIC TRAINING IN HEART FAILURE PATIENTS WITH OPTIMAL HEART FAILURE THERAPY – A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED STUDY
... have proposed a method of definition of four compensatory-adaptive stages physical efficiency during CPET in healthy individuals: lactate threshold (LT), pH- threshold (pH-T), respiratory compensation point (RCP) and ...
9
Exercise training in heart failure
... Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a common condition with a poor prognosis. It is associated with poor exercise tolerance and debilitating symptoms. These symptoms appear to be associated with ...
6
Blood pressure and heart failure
... with Heart Failure) trial suggested that BP ele- vations in patients with HF were associated with lower in-hospital mortality rates [46, ...in Heart Failure: Assessment of Reduction in ...
8
Advanced heart failure: A review
... chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Soci- ety of Cardiology ...the Heart Failure Association ...
6
CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN INFANCY
... This paper reports values for blood gas tensions and acid-base equilibrium in infants in con- gestive heart failure and will serve as an initial exploration of cardiac and respiratory fu[r] ...
9
Pharmacotherapy of Chronic Heart Failure
... of heart failure: male sex, age, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, absence of hissing respiration, loss of appetite and low body mass index (BMI) (Piepoli, ...decompensated heart failure, while in ...
22
Left Ventricular global longitudinal strain predicts heart failure readmission in acute decompensated heart failure
... than heart failure that could cause volume overload, such as end-stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis, severe liver disease, pericardial tamponade or constric- tion, acute myocardial infarction, and ...
6
Profiling Patients With Heart Failure and Testing a Motivational Interviewing Intervention to Improve Heart Failure Self-Care
... the Heart Failure Adherence and Retention Trial (HART) trial (n=902), self-management counseling plus HF education was compared with HF education alone for the primary end point of death or HF ...
182
Prevalence and characteristics of sleep apnoea in patients with stable heart failure: Results from a heart failure clinic
... a heart failure clinic, including patients with significant ...to Heart Failure in the general ...in Heart Fail- ure patients ...
8
The Prevalence and Outcomes of Influenza Virus Infection in Heart Failure Patients in Brazil: Influenza Infection in Heart Failure
... In addition, many patients with HF may be hospitalized for other causes related to influenza virus, such as bacterial pneumonia, where the viral etiology is not investigated or identified [4]. In the Organized Program to ...
6
Prevalence of early stages of heart failure in an elderly risk population: the Copenhagen Heart Failure Risk Study
... HF, heart failure; HR, heart rate; hsCRP, highly sensitive C reactive peptide; LDL, low-density lipoprotein; LV, left ventricle; MLHFQ, Minnesota Living with Heart Failure ...
12
Determining 30-day readmission risk for heart failure patients: the Readmission After Heart Failure scale
... conducted a retrospective study involving 28,919 Medicare patients with CHF and reported that patients aged < 65 years had significantly higher odds of readmission (OR 1.0) than patients aged 65–85 years (OR 0.83) or ...
15
Sex differences in ischemic heart disease and heart failure biomarkers
... Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is the leading cause of death for women in the USA, killing 289,758 women in 2013—which equates to approximately 1 in every 4 female deaths ...[4]. Heart failure with ...
13