Workshop: How to target mental disorders by means of biomarkers. Abstract Understanding of chronic heart failure HF has progressed from a. novel biomarkers that have shown substantial promise as.management of chronic heart failure with regards to risk stratification for future. This report will discuss the need for novel heart failure biomarkers, ideal.compensated and decompensated heart failur...

background: depression is common in chronic medical illnesses including hf. it has been established that depression has different rates in different races and the reported depression rates among hospitalized patients range from 13% to 77%; nevertheless, there is remarkably little information on the prevalence of depression and the   impact of demographic and health status in the north of iran ....

OBJECTIVES To compare the survival of patients thought to have heart failure in general practice (GP-HF) with that of patients with heart failure in hospital (hospital-HF), patients with heart disease but without heart failure (non-HF), and a control group without heart disease. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross sectional study from general practice with a prospective follow up from 5.3 to 7.4 years. ...

Heart failure (HF) is an epidemic with an estimated 23 million people afflicted worldwide. In the US, there are 5.1 million people ≥ 20 years of age with heart failure and 875,000 new patients being diagnosed each year [1]. Projections show that by 2030, the prevalence of HF will increase by 23% overall from current 2013 estimates with 26% of patients over the age of 80 years [2]. At 40 years o...

A significant proportion of patients with heart failure happen to have a normal ventricular ejection fraction at echocardiography during examination. Previously called diastolic heart failure, it is nowadays referred to as heart failure with normal ejection fraction (HFNEF) or HF with preserved ejection fraction. The European Society of Cardiology, recognizing the importance of this type of hea...

heart failure (hf) is a common disease with high health care costs and high mortality rate knowledge of the health-related quality of life (qol) outcomes of hf may guide decision making and be useful in assessing new therapies for population. yet little is known about qol of hf patients in iran. objectives: to assess health related qol of patients with hf with two different instrument and to co...

Heart failure (HF) is a prognostically unfavorable complication of cardiovascular diseases. The presented case report describes the management patient with severe progressive biventricular HF due to myocarditis, refractory therapy and requiring heart transplantation. Issues timely diagnosis feasibility radical surgical treatment are discussed.

background and objective: sleep-disordered breathing (sdb) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in patients with heart failure (hf). we assessed the prevalence and the pattern of sdb in hf patients who were candidates for heart transplantation. materials and methods: twenty heart transplantation patients with ventricular ejection-fraction < 25% were recruited consecutively in a ...

Background: Among the various pathologies that affect elderly, Heart Failure (HF) stands out. Recently, an attempt has been made to verify existence of cognitive impairment associated with HF. Objectives: To compare performance elderly people heart failure age-matched individuals without this pathology. Check marked in some functions clinical group. Methods: The sample consisted 78 people, whos...

BACKGROUND Heart failure (HF) is mainly detected and managed in primary care, but the care is considered suboptimal. We present the rationale, design and baseline results of the Treatment Optimisation in Primary care of Heart failure in the Utrecht region (TOPHU) study. In this study we assess the effect of a single training of GPs in the pharmacological management of patients with HF. METHOD...