It is assumed that the low-frequency power (LF) of heart rate variability (HRV) increases with progress of congestive heart failure (CHF), therefore positively correlating with cardiac 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) washout. It is demonstrated here that HRV, including normalized LF, correlated inversely with MIBG washout and positively with the ratio of heart-to-mediastinum MIBG activity i...

Hypocapnia contributes to the genesis of Cheyne-Stokes respiration and central sleep apnoea in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) and is associated with increased mortality. However, the cause of hypocapnia in patients with chronic stable CHF is unknown. Since pulmonary congestion can induce hyperventilation via stimulation of pulmonary vagal afferents, the present study tested the hy...

Previous studies have shown that congestive heart failure is characterized by sympathetic and reflex dysfunctions. Whether these alterations are potentiated in the presence of obesity and hypertension, two conditions that also display neuroadrenergic abnormalities and markedly increase the risk of heart failure, is unknown. In 14 healthy control subjects (C; age, 55.1+/-3.0 years; mean+/-SEM), ...

The main target of this research is to design a Fuzzy Based Expert System for the diagnosis and analysis of congestive heart failure (CHF). The designed system has seven inputs like breathing problem, cough, heart rate, swelling, weight gain, urination, lack energy. The output field provide the stage of CHF in the patient. There are four stages stage1, stage2, stage3 and stage4. It is an intege...

A classification system to detect congestive heart failure (CHF) patients from normal (N) patients is described. The classification procedure uses the k-nearest neighbor algorithm and uses features from the second-order difference plot (SODP) obtained from Holter monitor cardiac RR intervals. The classification system which employs a statistical procedure to obtain the final result gave a succe...

Severe congestive heart failure (CHF) patients are prone to hyponatremia. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is increasingly used for long-term management of refractory CHF patients. The glucose polymer icodextrin was proposed to be a good option for fluid removal in such patients. A small, although statistically significant reduction in serum sodium (∼2mmol/l) consistently observed in multiple trials, i...

Tens of millions of people worldwide including nearly 5 million Americans suffer from congestive heart failure (CHF), and the number of CHF patients has grown markedly over the past 40 years. The risk for developing heart failure is slightly greater in men than in women. African-Americans are twice as likely to acquire the disease as Caucasians, and mortality from the disease is also twice as g...

The medical term used for blood pressure is Hypertension (HTN). a common problem faced by most people today. leading danger many diseases such as CVD (cardiovascular) disorder and stroke high pressure. Major like CHF (congestive heart failure), renal disease blindness can also be caused HTN. Awareness of plant-based medication therapeutics continuously increasing day day. Different substitute m...

This paper is a group critique of a qualitative nursing study entitled “Female patients with congestive heart failure: how they conceive their life situation”, by Martensson, Karlsson, and Fridlund, as published in 1998. The primary purpose of the study was to describe from a nursing perspective how female patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) perceive, or conceive, their own situation i...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity. Among patients with heart failure, sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is a common problem. Current evidence suggests that SDB, particularly central SDB, is more prevalent in patients with CHF than in the general population, but it is underdiagnosed as SDB symptoms that are less prevalent in CHF. The main aims of this stud...