Integrated Care for Heart Failure in Primary Care
( Primary Care in Practice - Integration is Needed )
Publication series ： Primary Care in Practice - Integration is Needed
Author： Monica Lorenzini Caterina Ricci Silvia Riccomi Federica Abate5...
Publisher： IntechOpen
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: INT5952463946
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789535123996
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9789535124009
Subject： R1 Preventive Medicine , Health
Keyword： 预防医学、卫生学
Language： ENG
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Integrated Care for Heart Failure in Primary Care
Description
Chronic heart failure (CHF or simply HF) is a complex clinical syndrome that involves more than 2% of the general population and over 10% of the older people. For people with reduced ventricular function (the classical HFrEF phenotype), the guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) (e.g., Ace-inhibitors, beta-blockers, diuretics, rehabilitation or implantable ventricular devices) demonstrated to be efficacious in reducing hospitalisations and prolonging survival. Vice-versa, the HF with preserved ejection fraction (diastolic HF or HFpEF phenotype) is a much more complex syndrome, in which co-morbidities (such as COPD, depression, anemia, and diabetes, CAD) play a significant role in the decompensation episodes.
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