Open AccessManagement of a patient with terminal chronic heart failure.
Author(s) -
Н. А. Кошелева,
E. Yu. Ponomareva,
Д. С. Седов
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
kliničeskaâ medicina
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2412-1339
pISSN - 0023-2149
DOI - 10.18821/0023-2149-2018-96-3-273-276
Subject(s) - medicine , heart transplantation , heart failure , myocarditis , dilated cardiomyopathy , transplantation , cardiomyopathy , management of heart failure , intensive care medicine , cardiology
The presented clinical case describes the development of diffuse myocarditis in a 31-year-old man with the outcome of dilated cardiomyopathy and terminal chronic heart failure, resistant to drug therapy that required heart transplantation. Discussed aspects of diagnosis, clinical manifestations, tactics of patient management and indications for heart transplantation.