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Progresos en la insuficiencia cardiaca.

Heart failure has emerged as a high prevalent syndrome, also with high mortality and elevated costs, presenting mainly in the elderly. This article discusses the main advances in this condition as: definitory new criteria, dysfunction classes, new classification by stages and the advances in the kno...

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Published in:Medicina Interna de México Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 321 - 330
Main Authors: Cabrera, Ángel Julio Romero, Zerquera, José Máximo Carles, Ortiz, Eduardo Basilio Hernández
Format: Article
Published: Colegio de Medicina Interna de Mexico jul/ago2007
Subjects:
Congestive heart failure
Heart diseases
Heart failure
Cardiac arrest
Pathological physiology
Mortality
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:Heart failure has emerged as a high prevalent syndrome, also with high mortality and elevated costs, presenting mainly in the elderly. This article discusses the main advances in this condition as: definitory new criteria, dysfunction classes, new classification by stages and the advances in the knowledge of physiopathology, diagnosis and treatment.
La insuficiencia cardiaca predomina en los adultos mayores y es un síndrome de alta prevalencia, alta mortalidad y altos costos. Este artículo discute los principales progresos sobre esta enfermedad, como los nuevos criterios definitorios, los tipos de disfunción, la nueva clasificación por estadios y los progresos en el conocimiento de la fisiopatología, el diagnóstico y el tratamiento.