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Acute Heart Failure as a First Manifestation of Primary Adrenal Insufficiency: Highly Lethal If Not Diagnosed!

Case Reports in Endocrinology
Background. Primary adrenal insufficiency is an uncommon condition that manifests as nonspecific symptoms such as fatigue, weight loss, salt craving, and hyperpigmentation.
Maryam Heidarpour, Mohammad Mehdi Zare, Shiva Armani, Hedie Torkashvan, Sadegh Mazaheri-Tehrani, Davood Shafie   +5 more
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Weight Loss in Obese Patients With Heart Failure

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2016
BackgroundIn heart failure (HF), weight loss (WL) has been associated with an adverse prognosis whereas obesity has been linked to lower mortality (the obesity paradox). The impact of WL in obese patients with HF is incompletely understood. Our objective
Elisabet Zamora, Carles Díez‐López, Josep Lupón, Marta de Antonio, Mar Domingo, Javier Santesmases, María Isabel Troya, Crisanto Díez‐Quevedo, Salvador Altimir, Antoni Bayes‐Genis   +9 more
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Heart Failure

JACC: Heart Failure, 2013
Despite major improvements in the treatment of virtually all cardiac disorders, heart failure (HF) is an exception, in that its prevalence is rising, and only small prolongations in survival are occurring. An increasing fraction, especially older women with diabetes, obesity, and atrial fibrillation exhibit HF with preserved systolic function.
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The Role of Chemotherapy in Pediatric Myoepithelial Carcinoma: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Myoepithelial carcinoma (MEC) in pediatric patients is a rare and aggressive malignancy characterized by heterogeneous morphology and variable molecular features. The optimal role of chemotherapy remains unclear. We conducted a systematic review according to PRISMA 2020 guidelines to evaluate chemotherapy in pediatric and young‐adult patients ...
Marco Salvi, Maria Carmen Affinita, Giulia Fichera, Luisa Santoro, Angela Scagnellato, Calogero Virgone, Elena Poli, Gianni Bisogno   +7 more
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Nurse-led heart failure clinics in Sweden [PDF]

, 2001
Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the nurse-led heart failure care in Sweden. Methods: A postal questionnaire was sent to all 86 hospitals in Sweden treating heart failure patients.
Mårtensson, Jan,, Dahlström, U, Strömberg, A.,, Fridlund, Bengt,, Ulf Dahlström, Bengt Fridlund, Strömberg, Anna, Jan Mårtensson, Anna Strömberg, Mårtensson, J.,, Dahlström, U.,   +10 more
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Association between the Length of Hospital Stay and 30-Day Outcomes in Patients Admitted with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Emergency Medicine International, 2023
Background and Aim. Regarding patients admitted with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), there are inconsistent reports surrounding the association between length of stay (LOS) and mortality or rehospitalization following discharge.
Melika Namvar, Mohammad Fakhrolmobasheri, Sadegh Mazaheri-Tehrani, Maryam Heidarpour, Maryam Emamimeybodi, Davood Shafie   +5 more
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Heart failure – or a failure of imagination? [PDF]

Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2017
Over ten years ago, Richard Lehman wrote an editorial in the BMJ proposing that we should abandon the term heart failure.1 Instead, he suggested, ‘it might be kinder, and more accurate, to start calling it cardiac impairment.’ As Lehman argued, the term heart failure covers a confusingly wide spectrum of illness ranging from asymptomatic systolic ...
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Lungs in Heart Failure [PDF]

Pulmonary Medicine, 2012
Lung function abnormalities both at rest and during exercise are frequently observed in patients with chronic heart failure, also in the absence of respiratory disease. Alterations of respiratory mechanics and of gas exchange capacity are strictly related to heart failure.
Anna Apostolo, Giuliano Giusti, Paola Gargiulo, Maurizio Bussotti, Piergiuseppe Agostoni   +4 more
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Establishing an Apheresis Medicine Program in a Resource‐Constrained Setting: A 5‐Year Experience From Lagos, Nigeria

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Establishing a comprehensive apheresis medicine program in a resource‐constrained setting presents significant structural, financial, and logistical challenges. Despite the growing clinical importance of apheresis services globally, published experience from sub‐Saharan Africa remains sparse.
Folasade Adelekan‐Popoola, Shakirat Gold‐Olufadi, Olufunto Olufela Kalejaiye, Abdullateef Ogala, Rasheed A. Balogun   +4 more
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Prognostic impact over time of ischaemic heart disease vs. non-ischaemic heart disease in heart failure [PDF]

, 2020
Aims The aim of this study is to investigate the prognostic impact of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in heart failure (HF) and its association to age, sex, left ventricular ejection fraction (EF), and HF duration, and furthermore, to evaluate if the ...
Dahlström, Ulf, Entela Bollano, Michael Fu, Pivodic, Aldina, Pivodic, A., Ulf Dahlström, Bollano, Entela, Sjoland, Helen,, Fu, Michael,, Sjoland, Helen, Aldina Pivodic, Helen Sjöland, Bollano, Entela,, Fu, Michael, Jonas Silverdal, Dahlstrom, U., Pivodic, Aldina,, Silverdal, Jonas, Dahlström, Ulf,, Silverdal, Jonas,   +19 more
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