Vascular Health and Risk Management (Apr 2011)

The causes, consequences, and treatment of left or right heart failure

  • Peteiro J,
  • ,
  • Gacia-Campos A,
  • Garcia-Bueno L,
  • Abugattas-de-Torres JP,
  • Castro-Beiras A

Journal volume & issue
Vol. Volume 7
pp. 237 – 254

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Pablo Pazos-López, Jesús Peteiro-Vázquez, Ana Carcía-Campos, Lourdes García-Bueno, Juan Pablo Abugattas de Torres, Alfonso Castro-BeirasDepartment of Cardiology, Complejo hospitalario Universitario A Coruña, A Coruña, SpainAbstract: Chronic heart failure (HF) is a cardiovascular disease of cardinal importance because of several factors: a) an increasing occurrence due to the aging of the population, primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events, and modern advances in therapy, b) a bad prognosis: around 65% of patients are dead within 5 years of diagnosis, c) a high economic cost: HF accounts for 1% to 2% of total health care expenditure. This review focuses on the main causes, consequences in terms of morbidity, mortality and costs and treatment of HF.Keywords: heart failure, cause, consequence, treatment

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