Nearly 5 million Americans have heart failure (HF). Making a correct diagnosis ... be in the setting where the pretest probability of congestive HF being present is in the 50% range.

What Is Diastolic Heart Failure? A classic example of diastolic ... tachycardia, and signs of congestive failure such as rales in the lungs, and an elevated jugular venous pressure.

Aim In the clinical setting of acute myocarditis, existing guidelines recommend refraining from moderate-intensity to ...

People can experience heart failure differently. Sometimes symptoms appear suddenly, and sometimes they develop slowly over time. The most common heart failure symptoms are shortness of breath and ...

Acute congestive cardiac failure and hypoglycemia were observed simultaneously in 27 patients with underlying heart disease. Seventeen of this group had the hypoplastic left heart syndrome, two had ...

umcutrecht.nl Objective To investigate differences in 28-day and 5-year mortality and 5-year readmission after a first hospitalisation for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and congestive heart ...

Background The role of cyclic guanosine 3′,5′-monophosphate (cGMP) after acute myocardial infarction (AMI ... 1 However, excessive remodelling is associated with the development of congestive heart ...

Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction ... previous histories of coronary heart disease, valvular heart diseases, or known clinical heart failure; patients with severe liver or kidney dysfunction; ...