HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION IN DAILY MEDICAL PRACTICE
Abstract:
Determining the ejection fraction of the left ventricle (LV) divides the patients with clinical
and objective features of heart failure into two classes: patients with altered/reduced ejection fraction
(HFREF) and patients with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF). For a long period of time, the
attention was focused on HF with reduced ejection fraction, but epidemiological studies have shown that
50% of the patients with signs and symptoms of heart failure have the ejection fraction in normal limits.
In our study, we wish to make a characterization of the profile of the patients with heart failure as it
appears in daily practice and not in the case of carefully selected population as it happens in trials. This
study is useful for emphasizing the current reality existing in the case of patients with heart failure.
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