Open AccessWho Has Advanced Heart Failure? Definition and Epidemiology
Author(s) -
AbouEzzeddine Omar F.,
Redfield Margaret M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
congestive heart failure
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1751-7133
pISSN - 1527-5299
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-7133.2011.00246.x
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , intensive care medicine , epidemiology , medline , clinical trial , cardiology , pathology , political science , law
Congest Heart Fail. 2011;17:160–168. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Summarizing current guidelines and advanced heart failure (AHF) clinical trials/registries, this review focuses on the current definition of AHF and emphasizes the secular trends in this definition over the last two decades. Further, clinical, imaging, hemodynamic, functional capacity and biomarker parameters that may aid clinicians to better recognize patients with AHF are reviewed. Finally, we review the limited data concerning the epidemiology of AHF which to date has been poorly characterized.