Revista Finlay (Nov 2015)

Comprehensive Approach to Heart Failure: an Urgent Need

  • Yanier Coll Muñoz

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 4
pp. 294 – 298

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Heart failure leads to the activation of a neurohormonal response that interacts with the hemodynamic changes, which are joined by functional and structural myocardial abnormalities, that may exist. This paper addresses the role of the renin-angiotensin system in the pathophysiology of heart failure and the use of non-invasive complementary methods that provide additional information necessary for the assessment and comprehensive management of patients, without losing the essential connection between the doctor and the patient.

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