Acute Reversible Heart Failure in Africans

Acute reversible heart failure in Africans.

Acute reversible heart failure in severe iron-deficiency anemia associated with hookworm infestation in Uganda Africans.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: a new form of acute, reversible heart failure.

Several relatively recent case reports and series have described a condition featuring symptoms and signs of acute myocardial infarction without demonstrable coronary artery stenosis or spasm in which the heart takes on the appearance of a Japanese octopus fishing pot called a takotsubo (Figure 1). In takotsubo cardiomyopathy (also called transient apical ballooning and stress cardiomyopathy), ...

Acute Reversible Heart

ACUTE reversible heart failure is common among Africans (Bantu) living in and around Johannesburg. In some cases the temporary heart failure is due to some obvious cause such as acute nephritis, anemia, diphtheria, or pulmonary embolism, but in many patients the etiology is obscure. Gillanders1 described a type of heart disease that in its early stages could be reversed by an adequate diet, but...

Bi treatment with hydralazine/nitrates vs. placebo in Africans admitted with acute HEart Failure (BA-HEF).

AIMS Patients with acute heart failure (HF) in Africa are rarely being treated with a hydralazine/nitrates combination. Therefore the effect of this treatment was studied here. METHODS AND RESULTS The study was planned to enrol 500 patients during an acute HF admission, from nine sub-Saharan African countries. Patients were randomized in a double-blind manner to receive 50 mg hydralazine/20 m...