TY - JOUR
T1 - Who has advanced heart failure? Definition and epidemiology
AU - Abouezzeddine, Omar F.
AU - Redfield, Margaret M.
PY - 2011/7
Y1 - 2011/7
N2 - Summarizing current guidelines and advanced heart failure (AHF) clinical trials/registries, this review focuses on the current definition of AHF and emphasizes the secular trends in this definition over the last two decades. Further, clinical, imaging, hemodynamic, functional capacity and biomarker parameters that may aid clinicians to better recognize patients with AHF are reviewed. Finally, we review the limited data concerning the epidemiology of AHF which to date has been poorly characterized.
AB - Summarizing current guidelines and advanced heart failure (AHF) clinical trials/registries, this review focuses on the current definition of AHF and emphasizes the secular trends in this definition over the last two decades. Further, clinical, imaging, hemodynamic, functional capacity and biomarker parameters that may aid clinicians to better recognize patients with AHF are reviewed. Finally, we review the limited data concerning the epidemiology of AHF which to date has been poorly characterized.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1751-7133.2011.00246.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1751-7133.2011.00246.x
M3 - Review article
C2 - 21790965
AN - SCOPUS:79960702225
SN - 1527-5299
VL - 17
SP - 160
EP - 168
JO - Congestive Heart Failure
JF - Congestive Heart Failure
IS - 4
ER -