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John Pepper
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3 years ago
The most common cause of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) in the industrialised world is coronary heart disease.1 Patients with an ischaemic aetiology of left ventricular systolic dysfunction have significantly higher mortality rates than those with non-ischaemic aetiologies.2 This more aggressive course represents the convergence of ischaemic myocardial fibrosis and…
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Yee How Lau
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Bruce Rollman
Job title: Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Clinical and Translational Science
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Khung Keong Yeo
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Job title: Clinical Associate Professor and Senior Consultant
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Jonathan Jiunn Liang Yap
Research Area(s) / Expertise:
Job title: Consultant Cardiologist
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Kendra J Grubb
Job title: Surgical Director
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Inotropes in Acute Heart Failure
Author(s):
Vasiliki Bistola
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Angelos Arfaras-Melainis
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Eftihia Polyzogopoulou
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et al
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3 years ago
Article
Author(s):
Till Hauffe
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Bernard Krüger
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Dominique Bettex
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et al
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3 years ago
Shock in cardio-surgical intensive care unit (ICU) patients is a serious condition with a high morbidity and mortality.1,2 Prompt identification of the underlying conditions and correct management of the life- threatening physiological deteriorations are crucial to save the patient’s life. In daily practice, however, focusing on the main goal – to provide adequate oxygen delivery thereby…
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Author(s):
Martin R Cowie
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Michel Komajda
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3 years ago
Advances in diagnosis and treatment have improved the outlook for the estimated 26 million patients with heart failure (HF) worldwide,1 but there remains a continuing need for further reduction in mortality and hospitalisation and the associated social and financial consequences of the disease. In a European study of outcomes after HF hospitalisation, 17 % of patients died within 12 months and 44…
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Author(s):
Jacqueline H Morris
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Leway Chen
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3 years ago
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a progressive cardiovascular disease with significant morbidity and mortality that affects an increasing amount of people worldwide. There are approximately 6.5 million people in the US, more than 14 million people in Europe, and 26 million people worldwide who are living with heart failure, and the prevalence continues to grow.1–3 In the US alone, there were 960…
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