scholarly journals ACUTE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1281-1287
Author(s):  
Naeem Asghar ◽  
Shakeel Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Nazim ◽  
Hafiz Muhammad Faiq Ilyas ◽  
Muhammad Nouman Ahmad

Objectives: The objective of the study is to identify the precipitating factorsamong the patients presenting with AHF (Acute Heart Failure). Study Design: Cross sectionalstudy. Setting: Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore. Duration of Study: 6 months. From01-01-2007 to 30-06-2007. Methodology: The calculated sample size was 170 cases with 5%margin of error, 95% confidence level taking expected percentage of uncontrolled hypertensioni.e. 12% (least percentage among all precipitating factors). Results: In the study group, mostlypatients of AHF were young with mean age of 55 + 6.99 years, male (61.8%), Diabetic (53.5%)and have history of chronic Heart Failure (63.5%). In male the most common precipitating factorof AHF was ACS (39.04%) while in female uncontrolled hypertension (38.46%). Conclusion:In diabetic patients the most common precipitating factor of AHF was ACS (30.7%). In patientswith acute decompensation of chronic heart failure the most common precipitating factor wasnon-compliance of medication (30.55%) while in patients with de novo Acute Heart Failure itwas ACS (41.93%). ACS was the common precipitating factor of Acute Heart Failure (28.2%)among the study group irrespective of gender, diabetes and history of Heart Failure.

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (09) ◽  
pp. 1392-1396
Author(s):  
Jasia Reham Din ◽  
Shahid Maqbool ◽  
Shakeel ur Rehman ◽  
Naeem Hameed

Objectives: To determine the frequency of the major precipitating factorsamong the patients presenting with acute heart failure. Study Design: Cross sectional study.Setting: Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology, Faisalabad. Period: July 2014 to January 2015.Materials and Methods: 190 patients of acute heart failure were included after obtaininginformed consent from emergency department. Patients from age of 25 years to 80 years andof either sex either diabetic or non-diabetic were enrolled in study. ECG and CXR were takenin emergency with baseline investigations. Precipitating cause was identified from collectedhistory, clinical examination and ECG, CXR and lab results. Results: Mean age of these patientswere 54.4 + 8.92, 100 (52.6%) were male, 90 (47.4%) were females, 88 patients (46.3%) werediabetic, 102 patients (53.68%) were non-diabetic and 124 (65.3%) had previous history of heartfailure and 66 (34.7%) had no past history of heart failure. ACS was the common precipitatingfactor of Acute Heart Failure ( 31.57% ) among all the patients of the study with non-complianceof drugs 27.9% , arrhythmias 17.9% uncontrolled hypertension 17.36% and infections 5.3%.Conclusion: Young, male, diabetics and patients with history of chronic HF suffered more fromAHF. ACS was the most common precipitating factor while in patients with de novo Acute HeartFailure; it was ACS and non-compliance with drugs.


2008 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 72-73
Author(s):  
S BUGATTI ◽  
M METRA ◽  
S NODARI ◽  
T BORDONALI ◽  
B FONTANELLA ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Degoricija ◽  
Matias Trbušić ◽  
Ines Potočnjak ◽  
Bojana Radulović ◽  
Sanda Dokoza Terešak ◽  
...  

Circulation ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 130 (suppl_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed A Al Hashemi ◽  
Kadhim Sulaiman ◽  
Jassim Al-Suwaidi ◽  
Khalid F AlHabib ◽  
Husam AlFaleh ◽  
...  

Background: Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a known risk for stroke and morbidities and mortalities are known to be higher in CHF patients compared to stroke patients without CHF we here study the prevalence and the clinical significance in a group of patient with stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) who were admitted to hospital with acute heart failure (AHF) compared to those without stroke and are admitted with acute heart failure Methods: Data were derived from a prospective, multicenter, multinational study of 5005 patients hospitalized with AHF from February 2013 to November 2012. Data were analyzed according to the presence or absence of Stroke or bronchial TIA. Demographic, management, in-hospital and 1-year outcomes were compared Results: Stroke patients were likely to have a decompensation of chronic failure rather than De-Novo AHF when compared to those without Stroke/TIA (see table). Stroke patients were older; more likely to be female, have history of DM, HTN, dyslipidemia and CKD. Stroke patients were likely to have Atrial fibrillation, PVD, systolic LV dysfunction as well as CAD when compared to those without Stroke, they were also more likely receive NIV, IV inotropes and likely to have had cardiac PCI prior to this admission with AHF. Stroke patients had higher recurrence of stroke and one-year mortality rates. Conclusion: Patients who presented with AHF and history of stroke/TIA were having different clinical characteristics as well as comorbidities as compared to those without Stroke, with worse in-hospital and one-year outcome. The current study underlies the need to aggressively manage these high-risk patients.


Author(s):  
Astrid Hummel ◽  
Klaus Empen ◽  
Marcus Dörr ◽  
Stephan B. Felix

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Nicholas Woolfe Loftus ◽  
Tracey Bowden

This care study focuses on the initial acute phase of care for a patient with acutely decompensated heart failure. Heart failure is a syndrome characterised by clinical signs, such as pulmonary oedema, and symptoms, such as dyspnoea. Acute heart failure develops rapidly and requires urgent medical attention, unlike the slower insidious onset of chronic heart failure. Acute heart failure can be either new or acute decompensation of chronic heart failure. The patient presented with cardiogenic pulmonary oedema because of acute decompensation of his chronic heart failure. He agreed to medical management, which included continuous positive airway pressure, intra-arterial cannulation and a furosemide infusion. This treatment proved largely effective, but it may have been better if his furosemide infusion had been stopped sooner. The implications for practice are explored in this care study.


Open Medicine ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbora Ondrackova ◽  
Roman Miklik ◽  
Jiri Parenica ◽  
Jindrich Spinar ◽  
Michal Sticha ◽  
...  

AbstractThe retrospective cost analysis estimates direct in-patient costs and length of stay (LOS) in hospital for acute heart failure (AHF). Patients were hospitalized with acute decompensation (ADHF) or de novo AHF in the Faculty Hospital Brno in 2005 and 2006. Burden incurred is divided to standard cardiology unit (SCU) and intensive care unit (ICU). In-patient care costs include flat rate of admission, stay and medicinal procedures. The pharmaceuticals are included in daily in-patient rate; angiography, revascularizations and antiarrhythmic interventions are calculated separately. In total, 734 patients (57% male, mean age 71.7 years) with AHF were analyzed. De novo AHF (58.6%) was more common than ADHF; according to the clinical classification AHF with mild signs and symptoms prevailed (46%). The overall direct hospital cost of all patients was €2.4 million, mean LOS was 8.3 days and mean in-patient cost was €3295 (including all interventions). Almost a half passed through both SCU and ICU with LOS 10.8 days; mean LOS in the SCU was 8.3 days with one-day cost of €55; mean LOS in the ICU was 3.4 days with one-day cost of €618. Total cost of cardiac catheterizations and revascularizations (50% patients) was almost a million; cost of antiarrhythmic interventions was €529216 (implantation of pacemaker, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator or cardiac resynchronization therapy with biventricular device; 6.9% patients). Mortality during hospitalization was 14.6%. AHF is associated with poor prognosis and high costs during hospital admission; the predominant contributors of high costs are revascularization procedures (39%), stay in the ICU (31%) and antiarrhythmic interventions (22%).


2010 ◽  
Vol 138 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 162-169
Author(s):  
Marko Banovic ◽  
Zorana Vasiljevic-Pokrajcic ◽  
Bosiljka Vujisic-Tesic ◽  
Sanja Stankovic ◽  
Ivana Nedeljkovic ◽  
...  

Introduction. Acute heart failure (AHF) is one of the most common diseases in emergency medicine, associated with poor prognosis and high in-hospital and long-term mortality. Objective. To investigate clinical presentation of patients with de novo AHF and acute worsening of chronic heart failure (CHF) and to identify differences in blood levels of biomarkers and echocardiography findings. Methods. This prospective study comprised 64 consecutive patients being grouped according to the onset of the disease into patients with the de novo AHF (45.3%), and patients with acute worsening of CHF (54.7%). Results. Acute congestion (60%) was the most common manifestation of de novo AHF, whereas pulmonary oedema (43.1%) was the most common manifestation of acutely decompensated CHF. Patients with acutely decompensated CHF had significantly higher blood values of creatinine (147.10 vs 113.16 ?mol/l; p<0.05), urea (12.63 vs 7.82 mmol/l; p<0.05), BNP (1440.11 vs 712.24 pg/ml; p<001) and NTproBNP (9097.00 vs 2827.70 pg/ml; p<0.01) on admission, and lower values of M-mode left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) during hospitalization (49.44% vs 42.94%; p<0.05). The follow-up after one year revealed still significantly higher BNP (365.49 vs 164.02 pg/ ml; p<0.05) and lower average values of both LVEF in patients with acutely worsened CHF (46.62% vs 54.41% and 39.52% vs 47.88%; p<0.05). Conclusion. Considering differences in clinical severity on admission, echocardiography and natriuretic peptide values during hospitalization and after one year follow-up, de novo AHF and acutely worsened CHF are two different subgroups of the same syndrome.


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