Heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: diagnostic pitfalls and epidemiology.

abstract：BACKGROUND:EMPEROR-Preserved is an ongoing trial evaluating the effect of empagliflozin in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). This report describes the baseline characteristics of the EMPEROR-Preserved cohort and compares it with patients enrolled in prior HFpEF trials. METHODS:EMPER...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Anker SD,Butler J,Filippatos G,Khan MS,Ferreira JP,Bocchi E,Böhm M,Rocca HPB,Choi DJ,Chopra V,Chuquiure E,Giannetti N,Gomez-Mesa JE,Janssens S,Januzzi JL,Gonzalez-Juanatey JR,Merkely B,Nicholls SJ,Perrone SV,Piña IL

更新日期：2020-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The left ventricular phenotype of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) can appear similar in paediatric and adult patients. However, the aetiology of paediatric DCM is usually idiopathic, and often leads an aggressive clinical course. A structural underpinning of DCM is extracellular matrix changes, which are d...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Hsia TY,Ringewald JM,Stroud RE,Forbus GA,Bradley SM,Chung WK,Spinale FG

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Patients with acute heart failure (HF) in Africa are rarely being treated with a hydralazine/nitrates combination. Therefore the effect of this treatment was studied here. METHODS AND RESULTS:The study was planned to enrol 500 patients during an acute HF admission, from nine sub-Saharan African countries. Patient...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Sliwa K,Damasceno A,Davison BA,Mayosi BM,Sani MU,Ogah O,Mondo C,Ojji D,Dzudie A,Kouam CK,Yonga G,Ba SA,Ogola E,Edwards C,Milo O,Cotter G

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy and clinical outcome of peritoneal dialysis (PD) treatment in patients with severe refractory heart failure (HF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). METHODS AND RESULTS:The PD treatment was performed in 118 patients [49.2% New York Heart Association (NYHA) III and 5...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Koch M,Haastert B,Kohnle M,Rump LC,Kelm M,Trapp R,Aker S

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Myostatin inhibits myoblast differentiation/proliferation and may play a role in heart failure (HF) and reverse remodelling after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support. This study sought to characterize myostatin expression and activation in advanced HF before and after LVAD support. METHODS AND RESULTS:L...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： George I,Bish LT,Kamalakkannan G,Petrilli CM,Oz MC,Naka Y,Sweeney HL,Maybaum S

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing evidence that discharge planning and post-discharge support for CHF patients can contribute greatly to the medical management of heart failure (CHF) in the community and that the quality of the CHF patient's close personal relationships can influence outcome in CHF. However, there has bee...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Molloy GJ,Johnston DW,Witham MD

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ultrastructural findings of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM) include myocyte atrophy and myofilament loss, yet little is known about the vascular abnormalities present in IDCM. METHODS AND RESULTS:Patients with IDCM and controls underwent multi-slice CT to examine length and diameter of epicardial v...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Roura S,Planas F,Prat-Vidal C,Leta R,Soler-Botija C,Carreras F,Llach A,Hove-Madsen L,Pons Lladó G,Farré J,Cinca J,Bayes-Genis A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The Home or Hospital in Heart failure (HHH) study was a European Community-funded, multinational, randomized controlled clinical trial, conducted in the UK, Poland, and Italy, to assess the feasibility of a new system of home telemonitoring (HT). The HT system was used to monitor clinical and physiological paramet...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Mortara A,Pinna GD,Johnson P,Maestri R,Capomolla S,La Rovere MT,Ponikowski P,Tavazzi L,Sleight P,HHH Investigators.

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Congestive heart failure (CHF) is associated with impaired renal function. Previously, we have demonstrated that rats with decompensated CHF exhibited exaggerated sensitivity to the adverse renal effects of increased increased intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) as compared with normal controls. This study tested wheth...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Bishara B,Abu-Saleh N,Awad H,Ghrayeb N,Goltsman I,Aronson D,Khamaysi I,Assady S,Armaly Z,Haddad S,Haddad E,Abassi Z

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In amyloid patients, cardiac involvement dramatically worsens functional capacity and prognosis. We sought to study how the cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) could help in functional assessment and risk stratification of patients with cardiac amyloidosis (CA). METHODS AND RESULTS:We carried out a multicentre s...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Nicol M,Deney A,Lairez O,Vergaro G,Emdin M,Carecci A,Inamo J,Montfort A,Neviere R,Damy T,Harel S,Royer B,Baudet M,Cohen-Solal A,Arnulf B,Logeart D

更新日期：2020-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Hemochromatosis is a condition in which iron loading impairs the function of many organs, including the heart. Congestive heart failure with left ventricular dilatation is commonly found in patients with hemochromatosis. Two missense mutations (C282Y and H63D) have been shown to be responsible for the majority of ...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Goland S,Beilinson N,Kaftouri A,Shimoni S,Caspi A,Malnick SD

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP) is an inflammatory marker that predicts coronary heart disease (CHD) and, in recent studies, incident heart failure (HF). Whether the association of inflammation with incident HF is explained by worse baseline left ventricular dysfunction or by underlying CHD is unkn...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Williams ES,Shah SJ,Ali S,Na BY,Schiller NB,Whooley MA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of erythropoietin (EPO) has revolutionized the treatment of anaemia associated with many conditions including chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, little is known of the cellular impact of EPO on the uraemic heart. The discovery that the EPO receptor (EPOR) is also expressed on non-haematopoietic cells inclu...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Smith K,Semple D,Bhandari S,Seymour AM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) frequently occurs in association with postinfarction complications, particularly with heart failure (HF). AIMS:To evaluate whether postinfarction HF is associated with the subsequent development of AF and whether AF independently pre...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Asanin M,Perunicic J,Mrdovic I,Matic M,Vujisic-Tesic B,Arandjelovic A,Vasiljevic Z,Ostojic M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) experience breathlessness and fatigue on exercise. One of the abnormalities seen on maximal exercise testing is an increased ventilatory response to exercise (VE/VCO(2) slope). The cause of this is unknown, but is likely to be due to a combination of interacting pe...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Witte KK,Clark AL

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is not clear if long-term antithrombotic treatment has a beneficial effect on the incidence of thromboembolism in chronic heart failure (CHF). The HELAS study (Heart failure Long-term Antithrombotic Study) is a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to evaluate antithrombotic trea...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Cokkinos DV,Haralabopoulos GC,Kostis JB,Toutouzas PK,HELAS investigators.

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In this randomized, double-blind clinical study, we investigated the relationship between autoantibodies against cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and disease severity in elderly congestive heart failure (CHF) patients before and after titration of beta-blocker therapy. METHODS AND RESULTS:Anti-cTnI, cTnI, and N-terminal...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Düngen HD,Platzeck M,Vollert J,Searle J,Müller C,Reiche J,Mehrhof F,Müller R,Möckel M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Incident heart failure (HF) continues to pose a common and serious problem. We sought to examine the value of echocardiographic predictors of new HF in a community-based elderly population at risk for HF, independent of and incremental to clinical evaluation. METHODS AND RESULTS:Asymptomatic patients ≥65 years ol...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Yang H,Negishi K,Wang Y,Nolan M,Saito M,Marwick TH

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart failure and sleep apnoea are major health problems with an increasingly recognized association; evidence suggests that sleep apnoea may play a role in the progression of heart failure. However, confounding factors such as obesity, hypertension and coronary heart disease make this relationship uncertain and an in...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Ferreira S,Winck J,Bettencourt P,Rocha-Goncalves F

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COMBAT is a prospective, multicenter, randomized, blinded clinical study, with crossover design. The main objective is the comparative evaluation of atrio-biventricular versus conventional atrioventricular stimulation (atrio and right ventricle) in patients with heart failure and bradycardia as the primary indication ...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Martinelli M,Costa R,de Siqueira SF,Ramires JA

更新日期：2005-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital management of CHF and predictors of hospital mortality remain unclear. METHODS:To address these issues, we analyzed the hospital admissions for CHF during 1996 in a large university hospital. Patients discharged with the principal diagnosis of CHF were considered eligible for the study. RESULTS:Am...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Grigioni F,Carinci V,Favero L,Bacchi Reggiani L,Magnani G,Potena L,Barbieri A,Magelli C,Branzi A,Magnani B

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-care is essential in the long-term management of chronic heart failure. Heart failure guidelines stress the importance of patient education on treatment adherence, lifestyle changes, symptom monitoring and adequate response to possible deterioration. Self-care is related to medical and person-centred outcomes in ...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Jaarsma T,Hill L,Bayes-Genis A,La Rocca HB,Castiello T,Čelutkienė J,Marques-Sule E,Plymen CM,Piper SE,Riegel B,Rutten FH,Ben Gal T,Bauersachs J,Coats AJS,Chioncel O,Lopatin Y,Lund LH,Lainscak M,Moura B,Mullens W,P

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present report we describe that NG-monomethyl-L-arginine acetate, a non-specific nitric oxide synthesis inhibitor, administered at 1 mg kg(-1) h(-1) to a patient with critical hypotension following mitral valve surgery combined with passive containment surgery, increased the urinary output and arterial blood pr...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Franco-Cereceda A,Holm P,Bredin F,Adding C

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is one of the most effective therapies for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and leads to improved quality of life, reductions in heart failure hospitalization rates and reduces all-cause mortality. Nevertheless, up to two-thirds of eligible patients are not referred ...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Mullens W,Auricchio A,Martens P,Witte K,Cowie MR,Delgado V,Dickstein K,Linde C,Vernooy K,Leyva F,Bauersachs J,Israel CW,Lund L,Donal E,Boriani G,Jaarsma T,Berruezo A,Traykov V,Yousef Z,Kalarus Z,Nielsen JC,Steff

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess cardiac gene expression in peripheral blood cells of patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM) and its relationship to echocardiographic left ventricular (LV) function. METHODS AND RESULTS:A complete echocardiographic study and blood sampling were performed in 65 consecutive stable IDCM pat...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Kontaraki JE,Parthenakis FI,Nyktari EG,Patrianakos AP,Vardas PE

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serial measurements of N-terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) have been suggested for the management of outpatients with chronic heart failure (CHF). The relationship between NT-proBNP plasma levels and central haemodynamic parameters in this setting is not known. METHODS:In 19 outpatients wit...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Braunschweig F,Fahrleitner-Pammer A,Mangiavacchi M,Ghio S,Fotuhi P,Hoppe UC,Linde C

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Most studies on acute heart failure (HF) exploring the relationship between admissions to hospital for HF and subsequent outcomes have focused only on HF coded as the primary diagnosis, but many other patients have admissions complicated by HF requiring attention. Failure to quantify the total hospital burden of H...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Shoaib A,Farag M,Nasir M,John J,Gupta S,Pellicori P,Antony R,Perveen R,Rigby A,Goode KM,Yassin A,Clark AL,Cleland JG

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Quantification of linear lung ultrasound (LUS) artefacts (B-lines) represents a novel, non-invasive approach to assess pulmonary congestion. We investigated the relationship between the number of B-lines (vertical artefacts arising from the pleural line) and intracardiac pressures. METHODS AND RESULTS:Prior to sc...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Platz E,Lattanzi A,Agbo C,Takeuchi M,Resnic FS,Solomon SD,Desai AS

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that atrial fibrillation can lead to heart failure, and is attributed to rapid ventricular rate (tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy). Some recent studies suggest the possible existence of an intrinsic left-ventricular factor related to atrial fibrillation, irrespective of other elements. In order to d...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Jourdain P,Bellorini M,Funck F,Fulla Y,Guillard N,Loiret J,Thebault B,Sadeg N,Desnos M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appropriate interpretation of changes in markers of kidney function is essential during the treatment of acute and chronic heart failure. Historically, kidney function was primarily assessed by serum creatinine and the calculation of estimated glomerular filtration rate. An increase in serum creatinine, also termed wo...

journal_title：European journal of heart failure

authors： Mullens W,Damman K,Testani JM,Martens P,Mueller C,Lassus J,Tang WHW,Skouri H,Verbrugge FH,Orso F,Hill L,Ural D,Lainscak M,Rossignol P,Metra M,Mebazaa A,Seferovic P,Ruschitzka F,Coats A

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00