Larissa Heart Failure Risk Score: a proposed simple score for risk stratification in chronic heart failure

Risk stratification in chronic heart failure.

Despite advances in medical and surgical management, the prognosis of chronic heart failure remains poor. Few patients with chronic heart failure can be considered to have a good prognosis, but different trials have indicated a 6 month mortality between 5% and 60% depending on the severity of heart failure; identifying patients at truly low risk is difficult. A host of factors have been identif...

Should we perform a heart failure risk score?

The MESA heart failure risk score: can't we do more?

In 1987, Framingham Heart Study pioneer Dr William B Kannel wrote, ‘Epidemiologic data on incidence and prognosis of cardiac failure in the general population are actually quite sparse.’ Dr Kannel proceeded to report risk factors for heart failure identified in Framingham that included hypertension, ECG LV hypertrophy, obesity, diabetes, radiographic cardiac enlargement and cigarette use. Over ...

Risk stratification in heart surgery: comparison of six score systems.

OBJECTIVE Risk scores have become an important tool in patient assessment, as age, severity of heart disease, and comorbidity in patients undergoing heart surgery have considerably increased. Various risk scores have been developed to predict mortality after heart surgery. However, there are significant differences between scores with regard to score design and the initial patient population on...

The utility of biomarker risk prediction score in patients with chronic heart failure

BACKGROUND Chronic heart failure (CHF) has been remained a leading cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortaluty. The risk stratification of CHF individuals based on clinical criteria and biomarkers' models may improve medical care and probably increase efficacy of treatment strategy. However, various predictive models approved for CHF patients appear to be distinguished in their prognosticat...