Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure: Beyond Medical Treatment
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Palliative care in the treatment of advanced heart failure.
Heart failure is epidemic in developed countries and is expanding rapidly worldwide. Roughly 5% of patients with heart failure have end-stage disease that is refractory to medical therapy (stage D heart failure).1 Palliative care consultation relieves symptoms, improves patient satisfaction, and decreases the costs of care for these patients. Despite this, only a small fraction of end-stage hea...
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CONTEXT Advanced heart failure, defined as persistence of limiting symptoms despite therapy with agents of proven efficacy, accounts for the majority of morbidity and mortality in heart failure. OBJECTIVE To review current medical therapy for advanced heart failure. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE for all articles containing the term advanced heart failure that were published between 1980 ...
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BACKGROUND To validate a structured interview designed to evaluate the healthcare and information needs of patients with heart failure (HF), who were also characterized by means of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) and the 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36). METHODS Forty-five in- and outpatients with HF were administered a structured interview concerning their informa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Korean Journal of Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1738-9364
DOI: 10.3904/kjm.2012.82.6.658