Heart failure clinics
Specialized multi disciplinary heart failure clinics in Ontario, Canada: an environmental scan
... Our study provides a number of insights for policy makers who are planning the implementation of such disease management systems in other regions. The pro- liferation of heart failure clinics in ...
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Comparative effectiveness of the different components of care provided in heart failure clinics—protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis
... Background: Heart failure (HF) is a complex chronic condition, leading to frequent hospitalization, decreased quality of life, and increased ...these clinics; however, there is a wide range in the ...
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Guideline-directed medical therapy in heart failure patients: impact of focused care provided by a heart failure clinic in comparison to general cardiology out-patient department
... [27]. Heart failure clinics are as- sociated with the increased use of target doses of the drug when compared to other cardiology OPDs and can be seen as a quality improvement ...the heart ...
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Impact of Focussed Care in Heart Failure Patients on Hospital Readmission and Mortality
... of heart failure clinics with general cardiac outpatient departments in reducing heart failure associated rehospitalisation and ...established heart failure clinic in ...
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New pharmacological and technological management strategies in heart failure
... a heart failure hospitalization in the past 12 ...in heart failure-related hospitalizations over the 6-month time periods and a 37% decrease during the entire follow-up period (Figure ...first ...
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CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
... One week to 1 month (18 per cent of total group): coarctation of aorta, 36 per cent; trans- position of the great vessels, 20 per cent; endo- cardial fibroelastosis, 16 per cent; other, [r] ...
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Prognostic significance of Serum Uric Acid Level in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
... Stimulation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system leads to vasoconstriction, salt and water retention and sympathetic activation mediated by angiotensin II, which is a potent constrictor of arterioles both in the ...
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HEART FAILURE-A REVIEW
... Heart failure caused by systolic dysfunction is more readily recognized. It can be simplistically described as failure of the pump function of the heart. It is characterized by a decreased ...
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Pharmacotherapy of Chronic Heart Failure
... Diastolic Heart Failure) investigated the influence of spironolactone 25 mg 12-month therapy in comparison with placebo in 422 patients with CHFpEF on the /’ parameter and tolerance of physical loads with ...
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Copeptin in heart failure
... r= 0.276, P,0.001; LVEF, r=− 0.188, P= 0.03) and follow-up (WMIS, r= 0.244, P,0.001; LVEF, r=− 0.270, P,0.001). It also correlated with ventricular volumes (left ventricular end systolic volume [LVESV]/diastolic volume ...
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Candesartan in heart failure
... Heart failure is not a single entity, but a cycle of damage and neurohormonal activation that begins with an adverse cardiovascular environment, causing or leading to cardiac ...
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A framework for clinical reasoning in adult cardiology
... Abstract: It is well known that an expert clinician formulates a diagnostic hypothesis with little clinical data. In comparison, students have difficulties in doing so. The mental mechanism of diagnostic reasoning is ...
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PHARMACOTHERAPY OF HEART FAILURE
... Dopamine is an endogenous catecholamine with only limited use in the therapy of most cases with cardiogenic circulatory failure. The pharmacologic and hemodynamic effects of dopamine are concentration dependent. ...
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When the heart kills the liver: acute liver failure in congestive heart failure
... diac induced alF are hepatic congestion from venous hypertension and decreased oxygen delivery (Do) from a decreased cI [17]. once Do underwent a criti- cal threshold, hepatic hypoxia initiates a process that results in ...
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A Study on Prevalence and Associated Factors of Diastolic Heart Failure in Elderly with Congestive Heart Failure
... human heart, both myofilaments and calcium exchange pumps act more slowly, ...and heart failure will all lead to slowing of LV relaxation 34-36 ...
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Clinical assessment of complementary treatment with Qishen Yiqi dripping pills on ischemic heart failure: study protocol for a randomized, double blind, multicenter, placebo controlled trial (CACT IHF)
... The 6MWT will be used to assess the exercise capacity of the patients in this trial [22]. This test will be used for each patient at study visits V1, V3, and V4, and conducted in hospitals on a 30-meter track. The ...
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Drug Prescription Analysis at Hospital Discharge for Heart Failure Patients at the Institute of Cardiology of Abidjan
... in heart failure manage- ment in ICA where most patients are diagnosed at NYHA class ...in heart failure in certain conditions [7] ...chronic heart failure and that the mortality ...
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CHRONIC HEART FAILURE CAUSES OSTEOPATHY OR IS OSTEOPATHY A FACTOR IN DEVELOPMENT OF CHRONIC HEART FAILURE?
... Although structural changes of the spine are primarily connected with aging, so-called diseases of civilization, which predominately include cardiovascular system disorders, increase the pace of osteopathic changes [1]. ...
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“Effect of Sildenafil Citrate against Cardiotoxicity Induced by Isoproterenol in Male Rats” by Ahmed M. Mahmood, Mustafa Ghazi Al-Abbassi, Mustafa Mohammed Al-Obeidy, Iraq.
... Isoproterenol (ISO), a β-adrenergic agonist, is identified to produce cardiac ischemia due to free radical production by autoxidation 33 Auto-oxidation of ISO produces quinones, which react with oxygen to produce ...
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Considerations for initial therapy in the treatment of acute heart failure
... Acute Heart Failure (RELAX-AHF) trial, intravenous serelaxin infu- sion to patients hospitalized for AHF relieved dyspnea symptoms and reduced 180-day all-cause mortality com- pared with placebo ...
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