Therapeutic education and chronic heart failure

Family-Centered Education and Self-care Behaviors of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

Background: As for high prevalence and incidence of heart failure, it can impose huge health, economic, and social burden on society. Education and self-care are important aspects of management in patients with heart failure, which can control the disease complications. This study aimed to investigate the effect of family-centered education approach on self-care behaviors of the patients wi...

Hormonal alterations in heart failure: anabolic impairment in chronic heart failure - diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic issues.

Chronic heart failure represents a leading cause of mortality and health care expenditure in developed countries. In the last 20 years, medical therapy of heart failure has dramatically changed thanks to the introduction of agents able to significantly reduce the neurohormonal hyperactivation that underpins the syndrome, and to the growing opportunities of electrical therapies. Although major a...

Xanthine oxidase inhibition for chronic heart failure: is allopurinol the next therapeutic advance in heart failure?

A substantial body of evidence has accumulated to suggest a role for the xanthine oxidase metabolic pathway in the pathophysiology of chronic heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases.

The current therapeutic approach to chronic heart failure.

In the past 20 years, enormous progress has been made in the understanding of the pathophysiology and treatment of the complex clinical syndrome of heart failure. It has been a bidirectional process, with improvements in the understanding of the pathophysiology suggesting new therapeutic approaches and the success and failures of clinical trials refining our hypotheses or even suggesting the in...

Testosterone: a novel therapeutic approach in chronic heart failure?