The causes, consequences, and treatment of left or right heart failure.
Vasc Health Risk Manag
; 7: 237-54, 2011.
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| ID: mdl-21603593
ABSTRACT
Chronic heart failure (HF) is a cardiovascular disease of cardinal importance because of several factors a) an increasing occurrence due to the aging of the population, primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events, and modern advances in therapy, b) a bad prognosis around 65% of patients are dead within 5 years of diagnosis, c) a high economic cost HF accounts for 1% to 2% of total health care expenditure. This review focuses on the main causes, consequences in terms of morbidity, mortality and costs and treatment of HF.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Função Ventricular Direita
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Disfunção Ventricular Direita
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Insuficiência Cardíaca
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Hospitalização
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Vasc Health Risk Manag
Assunto da revista:
ANGIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2011
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Espanha