By 2020, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will be the third cause of mortality.
Extrapulmonary comorbidities influence the prognosis of patients with COPD. Tobacco …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an inflammatory disease of the lung
associated with progressive airflow limitation and punctuated by episodes of acute …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is commonly associated with heart failure
(HF) in clinical practice since they share the same pathogenic mechanism. Both conditions …

Objectives: This study sought to test whether measures of pulsatile arterial function are
useful for diagnosing heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF), in comparison …

Background/Objectives Chronic heart failure (CHF) is one of the most important public
health concerns in the industrialized world having increasing incidence and prevalence …

2158 JCS Joint Working Group and 19th, 2011, to carefully evaluate where evidence may
be lacking and how to improve the current situation. The timing and topics chosen for …

Background The diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in patients
with systolic heart failure (SHF) is challenging because symptoms of both conditions …

Physiologic endurance exercise performance is primarily limited by cardiac function. In
patients with heart failure, there is dissociation between cardiac performance and exercise …

Sepsis is a severe complication of critically ill patients that is characterized by the systemic
inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). The increased levels of B-type natriuretic peptide …

Background Pulmonary dysfunction is an important risk factor for postoperative
complications after cardiac surgery, and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease …