Prognosis in congestive heart failure

Prognostic variables such as the ejection fraction and peak oxygen consumption can be used to place patients with heart failure in risk strata. Some vasodilators have been shown to improve survival at all stages of heart failure with the probability of benefit increasing as the prognosis worsens. Qu...

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Published inAnnual review of medicine Vol. 45; p. 341
Main Authors Rector, T S, Cohn, J N
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.01.1994
Subjects
Death, Sudden, Cardiac - etiology
Heart Failure - drug therapy
Heart Failure - physiopathology
Humans
Oxygen Consumption - physiology
Prognosis
Risk Factors
Stroke Volume - physiology
Survival Rate
Ventricular Function, Left - physiology
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Summary:Prognostic variables such as the ejection fraction and peak oxygen consumption can be used to place patients with heart failure in risk strata. Some vasodilators have been shown to improve survival at all stages of heart failure with the probability of benefit increasing as the prognosis worsens. Quantitative estimates of survival among groups defined by prognostic variables and treatments should be used to make more informed benefit-to-risk assessments.
ISSN:0066-4219
DOI:10.1146/annurev.med.45.1.341