Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The aim of this study was to know the problematic posed by a significant range of patients hospitalized for heart failure in private urban centers which do not receive patients referred with end-stage disease.Baseline characteristics and outcome of 865 consecutive elderly patients hospitalized due to heart failure were analyzed in two of the above-mentioned centers.Mean age was 81 years and 48% were women.Heart failure was of coronary etiology in 25.5% of cases and chagasic in 0.4%, and 78% of patients were hypertensive.Average comorbidities were 3 per patient.Half of the patients had preserved systolic function.Systolic blood pressure on admission was 145 mmHg and ≥170 mmHg in 25% of cases.Average hospital stay was 6 days and in-hospital mortality 6.13%.The one-year evolution of these patients is a matter of great concern, with 70% of readmissions and 40.12% mortality.It should be pointed out that half of the post discharge deaths were not due to heart failure.
Source: Revista Argentina de Cardiología
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2898809263