Heart Failure Therapy
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 ...
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The heart-gut axis: new target for atherosclerosis and congestive heart failure therapy
... The human gut microbiota has been identified as a possible novel risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The intestinal microbiome plays a role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and heart failure. Even ...
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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.
... in heart failure and aid its ...with heart failure and guide the optimization of heart failure therapy 29 In previous studies, serum BNP levels were shown to increase in ...
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Effect of Massage Therapy on Physiologic Responses in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure
... Massage has been done for 3 days consecutively. Massage was arranged one hour before a meal or two hours after a meal. Before the massage, each participant was asked to sit up and position himself/herself on a bedside ...
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Heart Failure
... Chronic heart failure is a dynamic situation rather than a steady-state condition and, as heart function changes, many patients develop exacerbations. Many clinical features have been shown to have ...
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Background In patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, substantial clinical
... treating heart failure may originate from its hemodynamic effect for the combined post- and pre-capillary PH (Cpc-PH), but not for the isolated postcapillary PH ...
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Advanced heart failure: A review
... Heart failure (HF) has been recognized as a pandemic and is a serious clinical and health problem associated with significant mortality, morbidity and expenditure on healthcare, especially among older ...
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Congestive Heart Failure: Current Treatment and Therapies under Realm of Research
... congestive heart failure cases and the economic burden associated with it has led to the overwhelming demand for novel ...for heart failure have shown some promise in preclinical as well as ...
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Pacing in heart failure: focus on risk stratification and patient selection for cardiac resynchronization therapy
... resynchronization therapy: the Task Force on cardiac pacing and resynchronization therapy of the European Society of Cardiology ...European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA). Eur Heart J, 34: ...
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Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Clinical Profile, Risk Factor Analysis and Echo Evaluation
... ―HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION CLINICAL PROFILE, RISKFACTOR ANALYSIS, AND ECHO EVALUATION‘‘ was done by me at Government Stanley Medical College & hospital during 2010- 2011 under the ...
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Exercise based cardiac rehabilitation for adults with heart failure
... trol data, they found no statistically significant differences in pooled time to event estimates in favour of ExCR, although con- fidence intervals (CIs) were wide (all-cause mortality: hazard ra- tio (HR) 0.83, 95% CI ...
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The potential value of integrated natriuretic peptide and echo-guided heart failure management
... guiding Heart Failure (HF) therapy with Brain Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) or N-terminal prohormone of Brain Natriuretic Peptide (NT-proBNP), with the goal of lowering concentrations of these markers ...
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Individualized cardiac resynchronization therapy: current status
... resynchronization therapy (CRT) has shown a substantial reduction in heart failure patient morbidity and mortality, with improvement in quality of life as well as ...The therapy is, however, ...
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Echocardiographic markers of dyssynchrony as predictors of super-response to cardiac resynchronisation therapy – a pilot study
... Different factors associated with super-response to CRT have been reported. Jin reported that biventricular pacing percentage greater than 98% was a good predictor of a super-response [22]. Some data suggest that ...
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Central sleep apnoea and periodic breathing in heart failure: prognostic significance and treatment options
... Dysregulation of control of breathing plays the major role in the pathophysiology of CSA, with well-established differences compared to healthy individuals and heart failure patients free of SDB (figure 2). ...
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Designing phase 3 sepsis trials: application of learned experiences from critical care trials in acute heart failure
... replacement therapy, or vasopressors (i.e., organ failure free days) has also been ...should failure in some organs be weighted more heavily than others), and methodology to account for pre-existing ...
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Association of serum calcium and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in patients with type 2 diabetes
... The potential mechanisms underlying association between serum calcium and HFpEF remains unclear; however, there are some possibilities. On the one hand, the elevation of serum calcium appears to function as a connecting ...
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Northern Territory Heart Failure Initiative–Clinical Audit (NTHFI–CA)–a prospective database on the quality of care and outcomes for acute decompensated heart failure admission in the Northern Territory: study design and rationale
... The congestive heart failure (CHF) syndrome is the leading cause for admissions and is in the top three causes for mortality in the Western World. It is associated with signi fi cant morbidity, impacts on ...
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Modeling payback from research into the efficacy of left ventricular assist devices as destination therapy
... Thus in theory, an ENB from Table 2 could be used to inform an interim reimbursement decision for a second- generation LVAD. Nevertheless, the possibility remains that the wrong decision will have been taken. For ...
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Anemia associated with chronic heart failure: current concepts
... in heart failure are multiple, some of which remain to be scientifically proven, the weight of evidence suggests that it is likely due to a complex interaction of underlying iron deficiency, defec- tive ...
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