Associazione Nazionale Medici Cardiologi Ospedalieri

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Improving the knowledge, risk stratification and outcomes in advanced heart failure. The ISMETT Heart Failure Registry
Anno:
2024
Background: Advanced heart failure (AdHF) accounts for approximately 10% of patients in HF clinics worldwide. Clinical management of patients with AdHF remains challenging and most of the available studies focus on chronic but not advanced HF. Registry studies may provide important insights into this specific population. Methods: All consecutive…
Unloading strategies in Advanced heart Failure: the role of point-of-care ultrasound..
Anno:
2024
Patients with advanced heart failure (HF) exhibit repeated episodes of fluid retention (pulmonary and/or systemic congestion) and/or of reduced cardiac output at rest (peripheral hypoperfusion) requiring hospitalization along with diuretics/inotropic infusion. Pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) provides haemodynamic information to guide the therapy, however PAC is invasive and time consuming….
AL-Amyloidosis related Advanced Heart Failure diagnosed through F-18-Flutemetanol PET scan
Anno:
2024
BACKGROUND Systemic amyloidosis (SA) is a group of rare diseases in which abnormal misfolded proteins, amyloid fibrils, accumulate in tissue. The gold standard for diagnosis is tissue biopsy of the affected organ, but it is invasive and needs specific proteomic or immunohistochemistry analyses to characterize the involved protein. We…