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Filter by:Heart failure (HF) is a major healthcare problem. In patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF), aldosterone antagonists reduce mortality and hospitalization rate. Gender-related differences have been described in the regulation of renin angiotensin aldosterone system (RAAS), which is at the core of the pathophysiology of HF. Regarding gender-related differences in the use of MRAs, less is known about the effects of androgens on RAAS. In this single-center prospective cohort, a total of 100 adult (≥ 18 years) ambulatory patients of both sexes with the diagnosis of HF with HFrEF (LVEF≤ 40%) and NYHA class II-IV under optimized medical therapy started an aldosterone antagonist are enrolled and followed-up for 6 months. Patients are categorized according to their apparent sexual gender into two groups: the male group and the female group.
The Mid-Q Response study is a prospective, multi-center, randomized controlled, interventional, single-blinded, post-market study. The purpose of the Mid-Q Response study is to test the hypothesis that the AdaptivCRT (aCRT) algorithm is superior to standard CRT therapy regarding patient outcomes in CRT indicated patients with moderate QRS duration, preserved atrioventricular (AV) conduction and left bundle branch block (LBBB). The study will be executed at approximately 60 centers in Asia. The subjects will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to the aCRT ON (Adaptive Bi-V and LV) group or the aCRT OFF (Nonadaptive CRT) group. The primary objective is to test the hypothesis that aCRT ON increases the proportion of patients that improve on the Clinical Composite Score (CCS) compared to aCRT OFF at 6 months of follow-up.
Overall objective is to test whether the 5-weekly family home palliative and end-of-life care (FamPALcare) intervention educational and supportive sessions will improve rural home end-of-life and palliative care (EOLPC) for advanced heart failure at 6 months follow up.
The "four-point" questionnaire by Severo and his associates was weighted in 2011 in the Portuguese population and aims to characterize the severity of the symptoms of heart failure by providing a way to minimize the reliability of the NYHA classification. The questionnaire consists of four closed questions, three possible single-choice answers, coded 0, 1 or 2, and has been translated into Greek in accordance with the internationally-based methodology, with forward-backward translation.
Loop diuretics are the main therapy for decongestion of patients with advanced acute heart failure. However, these patients often develop diuretic-resistance or even diuretic-refractoriness. In order to overcome such resistance to diuretic, the clinician can increase the dose of furosemide, or change the way of administration (continuous infusion versus boluses) or associate a different class of diuretics (thiazide diuretics, K+-sparing diuretics) up to the addition of low doses of inotropic agents to improve renal perfusion. At the present time there is no evidence in literature in advanced acute heart failure patients about the superiority of the treatment with furosemide in continuous infusion or in intermittent boluses. The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of furosemide in boluses versus continuous infusion in advanced acute heart failure.
The idea behind the Future Patient research project is to develop a telerehabilitation program and tools for patients with heart failure. The hypothesis for this study is that participation in a telerehabilitation program for patients with heart failure will increase the patients' quality of life and multi-parametric (subjective and objective) individualized monitoring in a telerehabilitation program for patients with heart failure will increase detection of worsening of symptoms and avoid future hospitalization of the HF-patients.
The GUIDE-HF IDE clinical trial is intended to demonstrate the effectiveness of the CardioMEMS™ HF System in an expanded patient population including heart failure (HF) patients outside of the present indication, but at risk for future HF events or mortality.
Background: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a multi factorial disease, affecting clinical outcomes in failing heart (HF) patients treated by Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy with a defibrillator (CRT-d). Methods: One hundred and ninety five T2DM patients will receive a CRT-d treatment. Randomly the study population will receive a CRT-d via multipolar left ventricle (LV) lead pacing (n 99 as Multipolar group), v/s a CRT-d via bipolar LV pacing (n 96, as Bipolar group). These patients will be followed by clinical, and instrumental assessment, and telemetric device control at follow up. Study design will be to evaluate, in failing heart T2DM patients, cardiac deaths, all cause deaths, arrhythmic events, CRT-d responders rate, hospitalizations for HF worsening, phrenic nerve stimulation (PNS), and LV catheter dislodgment events (and re-intervention for LV catheter re-positioning), comparing multipolar CRT-d v/s bipolar CRT-d group of patients at follow up.
Cognitive Intervention to Improve Memory in Heart Failure patients
Individuals with chronic heart failure need a "safe and effective" exercise program that could enhance their quality of life. In this study, we examined whether an experimental exercise program of autonomous walking and high-intensity Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) could result in better effects on respiratory muscle strength (PImax), cardiovascular endurance, quality of life, and physical activity, when compared to autonomous walking and "sham" IMT program, in adults with chronic heart failure.