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Advances in the treatment of complex congenital heart disease over the past 20 years have led to a dramatic improvement in long-term survival.1 However, the incidence of cardiac arrhythmias as a sequel of palliative heart surgery has also increased significantly in adolescent and adult survivors of congenital heart disease surgery.1,2 Cardiac arrhythmias are the leading cause of emergency…
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In this video series, first presented at the ESC Congress 2022, held in Barcelona, Prof Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben, Prof Jose LuisZamorano, Dr Victoria Delgado, Prof DavideCapodanno and Dr SashaKoul discuss the diagnosis of low flow/low gradient aortic stenosis, which patients gain the most benefit from TAVI and how to avoid heart failure in aortic stenosis patients. Join this international…
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History of Mechanical Circulatory Support
The first reported clinical use of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) was by Liotta and Crawford in 1963. Via a left thoracotomy, an intracorporeal pneumatically driven pump was implanted using left atrial inflow and descending thoracic aortic outflow. Despite the successful implantation, the patient died within a short period of time after the…
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Aims: To assess the clinical and neurohormonal characteristics of patients eligible to sacubitril/valsartan (SV) attending to an outpatient heart failure clinic and describe variables related to SV prescription in real-life heart failure patients.
Design and methods: We collected data from 119 consecutive patients attending our heart failure outpatient clinic between May 2018 and November 2018.
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In this short video we asked Dr Mikhail Kosiborod (Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, US) about the key heart failure highlights of 2022 and his thoughts on what comes next in HF treatment and research.
Recorded at Heart Failure 2022, Madrid.
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Heart failure (HF) is a growing and increasingly important chronic disease of the Western world, occurring in at least 2% of the adult population and rising to 3% in those aged over 75 years. It is characterised by inadequate systemic perfusion due to impairment of the cardiac pump function. Clinical HF is a progressive condition, typically with high morbidity and mortality rates. It therefore…
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Chronic heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalisation in Germany1 and other European countries. It is the result of various cardiovascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction, arterial hypertension and valvular heart diseases. About 50 % of patients with heart failure have normal systolic, but impaired diastolic function, a condition termed heart failure with preserved ejection…
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Congenital heart disease is the most common congenital malformation and accounts for about eight cases per 1,000 births.1 Due to tremendous developments in cardiac surgery, nearly 90% of all children with congenital heart disease reach adult age. In patients with congenital heart disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) may develop due to increased pulmonary arterial flow as a result of a…
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Despite recent advances in therapy, heart failure (HF) remains a major cardiovascular epidemic worldwide. The increasing prevalence of the syndrome demands further improvement in practice and management to curb the economic and morbidity burden.
Current Dilemmas in Heart Failure Diagnosis and Care
Heart failure is a condition characterised by non-specific symptoms and unremarkable physical…
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In the first episode of our Masterclass video series, host, Dr Harriette Van Spall(McMaster University, Hamilton, CA) meets with Dr Biykem Bozkurt (Baylor College of Medicine and Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, US), chair of the Consensus Statement on the Universal Definition and Classification of Heart Failure released by Heart Failure Society of America, Heart…
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