The basics of heart failure management: are they being ignored?

Biomarkers in outpatient heart failure management; Are they correlated to and do they influence clinical judgment?

AIMS Heart failure (HF) management is complicated by difficulties in clinical assessment. Biomarkers may help guide HF management, but the correspondence between clinical evaluation and biomarker serum levels has hardly been studied. We investigated the correlation between biomarkers and clinical signs and symptoms, the influence of patient characteristics and comorbidities on New York Heart As...

[Biochemical markers in heart failure: are they all the same?].

Rev Esp Cardiol. 2005;58(3):241-3 241 In recent years there has been a huge proliferation in the number of studies examining the diagnostic and prognostic value of the numerous and varied biochemical markers of chronic heart failure. These markers are the mediators or expression of the neurohumoral activation associated with this disease—a consequence of left ventricular dysfunction and its hem...

Biochemical Markers in Heart Failure: Are They All the Same?

Rev Esp Cardiol. 2005;58(3):241-3 241 In recent years there has been a huge proliferation in the number of studies examining the diagnostic and prognostic value of the numerous and varied biochemical markers of chronic heart failure. These markers are the mediators or expression of the neurohumoral activation associated with this disease—a consequence of left ventricular dysfunction and its hem...

Multidisciplinary heart failure clinics: are they effective in Canada?

The Pathophysiology of Heart Failure in Children: The Basics

Few data exist on the pathophysiologic changes in pediatric heart failure. Most of the knowledge has evolved from animal models of ischemic or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. This review addresses the pathophysiologic changes that occur in the failing heart from animal models and the adult experience to unique aspects of heart failure in children.