Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9880
ISSN: 2155-9880
Basem Elsaid Enany
M.D, Cardiology, Lecturer of Cardiology,
Ainshams University, Cairo
Egypt
Research Article
Three Months Morbidity and Mortality of Newly Diagnosed Systolic Heart Failure Patients after their First Admission
Author(s): Ahmed Ibrahim Nassar, Adel Gamal Hasaneen, Mostafa Ahmed Alshikha and Basem Elsaid EnanyAhmed Ibrahim Nassar, Adel Gamal Hasaneen, Mostafa Ahmed Alshikha and Basem Elsaid Enany
Introduction: The prognosis following a new diagnosis of heart failure in the general population is poor. The risk of mortality is particularly high in the early period after diagnosis with approximately 25-30% not surviving six months. We aimed to follow up the clinical course of systolic heart failure patients for three months after their first admission because of heart failure, including morbidity and mortality.
Patients and methods: 49 patients was admitted to our police hospital with verified heart failure depending on Framingham criteria and whose left ventricular ejection fraction% < 45% evaluated echocardiographically within 24 hours of admission. They were prospectively followed up for 3 months.
Results: Coronary artery disease was the main cause of heart failure (75.6%). Hypertension was present in (6.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2155-9880.1000183