CONGRESS ABSTRACT

Telemedicine (TM) offers significant potential for managing chronic conditions like heart failure (HF), where it has proven highly effective. The TeleCuore project, launched at Piacenza Hospital, evaluates the feasibility of TM in HF care, aiming to improve outcomes, enhance hospital-community collaboration, and reduce unnecessary visits (Figure 1). Launched in…

Background: Heart failure (HF) is a clinical syndrome with a great social burden, causing several hospitalizations which are often correlated with an inadequate adherence to therapy. The aim of this study is to evaluate if an educational and supporting program guided by a nursing team, could produce an improvement…

Background: Appropriate interpretation of kidney function is essential for clinical and therapeutic management of heart failure (HF). In HF patients, chronic kidney disease plays a critical role and impacts prognosis. In this study we aimed at evaluating the prognostic accuracy of five glomerular filtration rate (GFR) estimation formulas in…