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20 kwi 2023 · Your provider checks to see if you have risk factors for heart failure, such as high blood pressure, coronary artery disease or diabetes. Your care provider listens to your lungs and heart with a device called a stethoscope.
20 kwi 2023 · Overview. Heart failure occurs when the heart muscle doesn't pump blood as well as it should. When this happens, blood often backs up and fluid can build up in the lungs, causing shortness of breath. Certain heart conditions gradually leave the heart too weak or stiff to fill and pump blood properly.
Chronic heart failure (CHF) remains the only cardiovascular disease with an increasing hospitalization burden and an ongoing drain on health care expenditures. The prevalence of CHF increases with advancing life span, with diastolic heart failure predominating in the elderly population.
This review deals exclusively with heart failure due to left or biventricular systolic dysfunction and does not address primary diastolic dysfunction, cor pulmonale, or the treatment of patients with surgically correctable valvular disease.
1 kwi 2022 · Heart failure remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. The 2022 heart failure guideline provides recommendations based on contemporary evidence for the treatment of these patients.
20 wrz 2022 · Objective. To compare clinical characteristics, treatment patterns, and 30-day all-cause readmission and mortality between patients hospitalized for heart failure (HF) before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Patients and Methods. The study was conducted at 16 hospitals across 3 geographically dispersed US states.
9 mar 2020 · For example, for patients taking 40 mg of oral furosemide twice daily as an outpatient, initial intravenous (IV) dosing would be 100 mg of furosemide IV twice daily. For patients not receiving long-term loop diuretic agents, 40-80 mg IV BID of furosemide or the equivalent is a reasonable, empiric, starting dose.
