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10 kwi 2024 · Fortunately, remarkable scientific advances have been made in the past few years that have led to new treatments and improved prognosis for patients with heart failure. This review examines these changes with a focus on the diagnosis and medical management of heart failure.
28 lip 2021 · The aim of this review is to offer an insight on current literature and provide a clinically oriented, patient-tailored approach regarding assessment, treatment and follow-up of elderly patients admitted for AHF.
This review paper will focus on the specific consideration for CHF assessment in the older population. Management strategies will be reviewed, including non-pharmacologic, pharmacologic, quality care indicators, quality improvement in care transition and lastly, end-of-life issues.
Older patients also have a different risk profile compared with younger patients: often heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, and infection as the most frequent precipitating factor of AHF. Moreover, co-morbidities, disability and frailty are common, and increase morbidity, recovery time, readmission rates and mortality; their ...
6 lut 2017 · In this article, we highlight ten peculiar management considerations when approaching older patients with HF. We discuss issues related to epidemiology, diagnostic challenges, pharmacotherapy, and palliative care; all of which can impact this unique population and, more importantly, the disease burden as a whole.
29 sie 2020 · Randomized trial to determine the effect of nebivolol on mortality and cardiovascular hospital admission in elderly patients with heart failure (SENIORS).
7 lis 2019 · From this brief overview, there are challenges in managing heart failure in older populations mainly related to the lack of evidence base of benefit for treatments in patients with preserved systolic function, presence of co-morbidities and lack of resources to manage the high rates of heart failure in this patient group.
