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Author(s):
Frances M Russell
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Matt Rutz
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Peter S Pang
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3 years ago
The emergency department (ED) plays a critical role in the initial diagnosis and management of acute heart failure (AHF),1,2 as nearly 80 % of all AHF admissions originate from the ER.3 However, patients do not present with a diagnosis; rather they present with a chief complaint reflecting signs and symptoms – most commonly breathlessness. Differentiating AHF from other causes of breathlessness…
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Author(s):
Aniket S Rali
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Sergio Trevino
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Edward Yang
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et al
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3 years ago
Dear Editor,
Case Presentation
A 50-year old female presented to the emergency department with a 6-day history of fever, progressively worsening cough and shortness of breath. The patient did not report any contact with anyone who had been recently unwell or had been travelling. Upon arrival to the emergency room, the patient was noted to be severely hypoxaemic by pulse oximetry (66%) and in…
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Author(s):
Fraser J Graham
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Antonio Iaconelli
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Piotr Sonecki
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et al
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9 months ago
Author(s):
Maria Chiara Scali
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Doralisa Morrone
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Mario Marzilli
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3 years ago
As coronary angiography is of limited value in defining the functional significance of a stenosis, the timely article by Balanescu in this issue of European Cardiology Review rationally proposes to integrate the anatomic information with a functional assessment, either by measuring coronary flow reserve (CFR) or intracoronary artery pressure with fractional flow reserve (FFR). CFR measurements…
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Author(s):
Aqtab Mazhar Alias
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Raja Ezman Raja Shariff
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1 month ago
Author(s):
Shamai A Grossman
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3 years ago
Introduction
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is an imbalance in pump function in which the heart fails to maintain the circulation of blood adequately. The most severe manifestation of CHF, pulmonary edema, develops when this imbalance causes an increase in lung fluid secondary to leakage from pulmonary capillaries into the interstitium and alveoli of the lung.
CHF can be categorized as forward…
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Author(s):
Christopher J Allen
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Kaushik Guha
,
Rakesh Sharma
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3 years ago
Acute heart failure (AHF) is a leading cause of hospitalisation in developed nations, responsible for 67,000 admissions a year in the UK alone, an incidence which is set to increase with an ageing population.1 The prognosis remains poor: in-hospital mortality ranges from 4–11 % and in those patients surviving to discharge 50 % will be re-admitted and one-third will die within 12 months.2–6 These…
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Author(s):
Shamai A Grossman
Added:
3 years ago
Introduction
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is an imbalance in pump function in which the heart fails to maintain the circulation of blood adequately. The most severe manifestation of CHF, pulmonary edema, develops when this imbalance causes an increase in lung fluid secondary to leakage from pulmonary capillaries into the interstitium and alveoli of the lung.
CHF can be categorized as forward…
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Author(s):
Jelena Celutkiene
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Mindaugas Balčiūnas
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Denis Kablučko
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et al
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3 years ago
Heart failure (HF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) comorbidity poses substantial diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in acute care settings. Outcomes of this comorbidity are worse than in either disease alone.1,2 A hospital diagnosis of COPD is an independent predictor of all-cause and non-cardiovascular mortality in HF patients,3–5 associated with decrease in use of evidence…
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