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... mild heart failure and include patients treated with diuretics who not have heart failure Incidence of heart failure The Framingham data show an age adjusted annual incidence of heart failure of ... longitudinal source of data on the epidemiology of heart failure Contemporary studies of the epidemiology of heart failure in United Kingdom Study Diagnostic criteria Hillingdon heart failure study ... studies of the epidemiology of heart failure and left ventricular dysfunction have been conducted, including a study of the incidence of heart failure in one west London district (Hillingdon heart failure...

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... with heart failure Lancet 1997;349:747-52 x Remme WJ The treatment of heart failure The Task Force of the Working Group on Heart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology Eur Heart J 1997;18:736-53 ... course of alcoholic cardiomyopathy Ann Intern Med 1974;80:293-7 x The Task Force of the Working Group on Heart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology Guidelines on the treatment of heart failure ... the natural course of chronic heart failure The Munich mild heart failure study showed that ACE inhibitors combined with standard treatment slowed the progression of heart failure in patients...

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... 2000 www.bmj.com Clinical review Downloaded from bmj.com on October 2006 ABC of heart failure Heart failure in general practice F D R Hobbs, R C Davis, G Y H Lip Management of heart failure in general ... mortality Nurse management of heart failure has implications for the provision of care in patients with chronic heart failure, sharing the increasing burden of heart failure Specialist nurses ... survey of heart failure in general practice The west Birmingham heart failure project Eur J Gen Pract 1997;3:85-9 x Remes J, Miettinen H, Reunanen A, Pyorala K Validity of clinical diagnosis of heart...

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... are listed at the end of this volume Surgical Options for the Treatment of Heart Failure edited by ROY G MASTERS, MD FRCSC Division of Cardiac Surgery; University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ... overall knowledge of the management of the heart failure patient and provides a useful and worthwhile read for every cardiac surgeon of the day Wilbert J Keon University of Ottawa Heart Institute ... impression of adverse outcome in the face of severe right heart failure, we undertook to investigate this factor specifically We used RV HF on liRNA scan as our numerical indicator of right heart failure...

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... Epidemiological aspects of heart failure Cardiol Clin 1989;7:1-9 Guidelines for the evaluation and management of heart failure Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association ... mechanisms in failing hearts Heart Failure Reviews 1997;2:55-65 Moser DK Palhophysiolog>' of heart failure update: the role of neurohumoral activation in the progression of heart failure Am As.soc ... fraction and the prognosis of heart failure Sarcolemma (SL) in failing hearts The status of the Ca"^ channels may depend on the type ol' heart failure Reports of increased density of Ca'* channels from...

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... of congestive heart failure has improved dramatically as well, especially in the recognition of the importance of treatment with aftcrload reduction This treatment was not available to many of ... the natural history of their regurgitant lesions than previously, largely as a result of identification of appropriate noninvasive indicators of impending decompensation of the left ventricle, ... mechanism of the postoperative depression of left ventricular performance still remains speculative despite the significant number of experimental and clinical studies^' The reduction of ejection...

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... symptoms of heart failure ^' ^ Medical therapy has had a dramatic impact on the symptoms of heart failure, with less but still significant impact on survival, challenging previous assumptions of when ... in most of these patients"' Although many patients have to litres of excess fluid at the time of evaluation, the lungs are usually clear of rales in chronic heart failure and peripheral edema and ... is more often a direct result of reflex responses to decreased atrial distension than an indication of falling cardiac output The majority of patients with chronically dilated heart failure will...

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... development of heart failure ^*'" Even after the symptoms of heart failure have appeared, new approaches to both medical and surgical therapy may prolong the pcnod of cardiac and clinical compensation ... transplantation for treatment of advanced heart failure: effective use of vasodilators and diuretics J Heart Lung Transplant 1991:10:468 21 Stevenson LW, Perloff JK The limited reliability of physical signs ... estimation of hemodynamics in chronic heart failure J Am Med/\ssoc 1989;261:884 22 Stevenson LW, Tillisch JH Maintenance of cardiac output with normal filling pressures in dilated heart failure...

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... worst outcome are less than year of age Patients to years of age have intermediate survival rates Registry -oflnt 'I Soc for Heart

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... population of patients that require a.ssistance and help Congestive heart failure refers to a clinical syndrome of depressed cardiac output that is unable to meet the metabolic needs of the body ... an offshoot from the development of cardiopulmonary bypass Early efforts in the design and development of devices were focused on providing support for the body and the heart during periods of ... in medical and surgical therapies for congestive heart failure, mortality and morbidity remain high. ' The cost of caring for congestive heart failure patienLs and their repeated readmissions...

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... stimulation of the cardiomyoplasty wrap, has led to the exploration of other mechanisms to explain the eflects of cardiomyoplasty in heart failure Using a pressure-volume loop to study the effects of ... better understanding of ttie pathophysiology of heart failure, the concepts of the ' girdling' and 'myocardial sparing' have provided a potential explanation on how the reversal of the remodeling ... heart failure, the safe and effective pertbnnance of DCMP requires a dedicated team of medical professionals accustomed to the delicate needs of heart failure patients This team should include nurses,...

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... variety of disease processes including both chroruc ischemia and the cardiomyopathies) ultimately resulting in death Cost of Heart Failure In terms of human suffering and death, the cost of heart failure ... Wood D/\ et al The epidemiology of heart failure Eur Heart J 1997:18:20825 Dickstein ML, Spotnitz HM, Rose EA, Burkhoff D Heart reduction surgery: An analysis of the impact on cardiac function ... the U.S.A., heart failure is the primary diagnosis of over 900,000 hospitalizations per year with an annual new diagnosis of over 400,000 individuals.*'' The estimated cost of heart failure in...

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... Epidemiology aspects of heart failure Cardiol Clin 1989;7:1-9 Massie BM, Packer M Congestive heart failure: Current controversies and fiiture prospects .

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... differ significantly The purpose of this case report is to highlight the diagnosis of IVNC and briefly review our current understanding of the condition The presence of marked left ventricular trabeculation ... (Fig 2) Intravenous injection of ultrasound contrast agent confirmed an area of non-compacted myocardium subtending a thinner walled area of compaction and a diagnosis of IVNC was made (Fig 3) Discussion ... high incidence of sudden death reported in patients with IVNC has prompted some authors to advocate a strategy of "early" automated implantable cardiodefibrillator implantation [3] The role of...

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... volume overload are an inevitable sequelae of heart failure and are associated with pulmonary and systemic venous congestion [1] In the setting of heart failure, alterations in the sympathetic nervous ... et al Tang WH, Tsai EJ, Wilkoff BL 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force ... Epidemiology and clinical course of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction Eur J Heart Fail 2011;13(1):18–28 74 Yip GW, Wang M, Wang T, et al The Hong Kong diastolic heart failure study:...

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... study The draw back of the studies in this area of VTE include the variability of type of MP studied, the techniques employed for measurement of MP and retrospective nature of investigations undertaken ... most suitable method because of its inherent accuracy, high sensitivity, specificity and high through put for t Hcys analysis 20 Pathophysiology and Clinical Aspects of Venous Thromboembolism in ... decreased concentration of serum folic acid may occur in 80% of alcohol abusers and this can lead to serious clinical consequences 24 Pathophysiology and Clinical Aspects of Venous Thromboembolism...

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... related to an increased availability of high- energy phosphates (augmented store of PCr and increased rate of PCr resynthesis) [] Since breakdown of PCr involves uptake of protons the CK reaction has ... Department of Lung Medicine, University Hospital, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, N-, Norway Per Bjửrntorp Department of Heart and Lung Diseases, University of Gothenburg, ... of Anatomy, University of Kuopio, FIN-, Finland Jan Henriksson Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, University of Stockholm, SE, Sweden Nils Hjeltness Department of...

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... study The draw back of the studies in this area of VTE include the variability of type of MP studied, the techniques employed for measurement of MP and retrospective nature of investigations undertaken ... most suitable method because of its inherent accuracy, high sensitivity, specificity and high through put for t Hcys analysis 20 Pathophysiology and Clinical Aspects of Venous Thromboembolism in ... decreased concentration of serum folic acid may occur in 80% of alcohol abusers and this can lead to serious clinical consequences 24 Pathophysiology and Clinical Aspects of Venous Thromboembolism...

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... by a set of detectable characteristics, usually used when the pathophysiology has not yet been discovered [7] In the case of 'facet syndrome', the source of pain is identified but the clinical ... the degree of consensus on the subject amongst a large group of practitioners was seen to be a useful contribution Therefore, this study aims to describe chiropractors' views of the clinical presentation ... agree on a maximum of three keywords on each of four topics relating to the presentation of pain: location, severity, aggravating factors, and relieving factors The choice of these keywords was...

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... description of the microbiological results and the discussion PAN was involved in the surgical treatment of many of the patients included, contributed essentially to the Page of writing of the manuscript ... Cite this article as: Krogvold et al.: Clinical aspects of a nationwide epidemic of severe haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in children Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency ... perforation of colon (patient and 9) or catheter related infection (patient 5), respectively Discussion We present a nationwide outbreak of STEC causing severe HUS in a high percentage of the affected...

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