Rehospitalization after intermittent levosimendan treatment in advanced heart failure patients: a meta‐analysis of randomized trials

S Silvetti, A Belletti, A Fontana… - ESC Heart Failure, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Intermittent levosimendan administration has been suggested to improve survival in
patients with advanced heart failure (AdHF). Quality of life is a key issue for AdHF patients …

Cost‐effectiveness of remote cardiac monitoring with the CardioMEMS heart failure system

JK Schmier, KL Ong, GC Fonarow - Clinical cardiology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of cardiovascular mortality in the United States and
presents a substantial economic burden. A recently approved implantable wireless …

[HTML][HTML] Repetitive use of levosimendan in advanced heart failure: need for stronger evidence in a field in dire need of a useful therapy

G Pölzl, J Altenberger, L Baholli, P Beltrán… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Patients in the latest stages of heart failure are severely compromised, with poor quality of
life and frequent hospitalizations. Heart transplantation and left ventricular assist device …

Budget impact of intravenous iron therapy with ferric carboxymaltose in patients with chronic heart failure and iron deficiency in Germany

U Theidel, S Väätäinen, J Martikainen, E Soini… - ESC heart …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Treatment of iron deficiency (ID) in patients with heart failure (HF) with intravenous iron
substitution [ferric carboxymaltose (FCM)] has previously shown significant improvements in …

Innovative Telemonitoring Enhanced Care Programme for Chronic Heart Failure (ITEC-CHF) to improve guideline compliance and collaborative care: protocol of a …

H Ding, R Jayasena, A Maiorana, A Dowling… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a life-threatening chronic disease characterised
by periodic exacerbations and recurrent hospitalisations. In the management of CHF, patient …

Clinical decision support to efficiently identify patients eligible for advanced heart failure therapies

RS Evans, AG Kfoury, BD Horne, JF Lloyd… - Journal of Cardiac …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Patients who need and receive timely advanced heart failure (HF) therapies
have better long-term survival. However, many of these patients are not identified and …

The effect of religiosity on quality of life in Muslim patients with heart failure: a study in Qom, the religious capital of Iran

H Abolghasem-Gorji, SA Bathaei… - … Health, Religion & …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Due to the low quality of life (QoL) in patients with heart failure, many researchers attempted
to find new ways to improve the QoL in these patients. This study was conducted to …

A comparative correlational study of coping strategies and quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure and the general Swedish population

A Nilsson, M Carlsson, R Lindqvist… - Nursing …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The aim was to compare coping strategies and quality of life (QoL) in patients with
chronic heart failure (CHF) with such strategies and QOL in persons from two general …

Randomised feasibility trial into the effects of low-frequency electrical muscle stimulation in advanced heart failure patients

S Ennis, G McGregor, T Hamborg, H Jones, R Shave… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Low-frequency electrical muscle stimulation (LF-EMS) may have the potential to
reduce breathlessness and increase exercise capacity in the chronic heart failure population …

Patient-reported outcomes and associations with pleural effusion in outpatients with heart failure: an observational cohort study

GH Gundersen, TM Norekvål, T Graven, HH Haug… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives We aimed to study whether patient-reported outcomes, measured by quality of
life (QoL) and functional class, are sensitive to pleural effusion (PLE) in patients with heart …