Posted by: Johnson Francis on: 24 Oct, 2008
Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) is a set of 21 questions used to evaluated patients with heart failure. The questionnaire evaluates how much heart failure has affected the individual’s life in the past four weeks. For each question the answer may vary from 0 (no), 1 (very little) to 5 (very much). So the [...]
Posted by: Johnson Francis on: 28 Sep, 2008
What is the role of beta blockers in heart failure? Traditionally it is thought that sympathoadrenergic system activation is compensatory in heart failure. This is true in acute heart failure. But in chronic heart failure, sympathoadrenergic system becomes counter productive and maladaptive. It increases the afterload and myocardial cell necrosis as well down regulation of [...]
Posted by: Johnson Francis on: 28 Sep, 2008
What is heart failure? Heart failure is a clinical syndrome due to abnormal left ventricular function characterized by systemic or pulmonary venous congestion. Heart failure is classified into systolic and diastolic heart failure as follows: Systolic heart failure: ejection fraction (EF) less than 40%. Diastolic heart failure: EF > 40%. Normal systolic function has to [...]
