Outcomes of Patients With Heart Failure Hospitalized in an Internal Medicine Unit - a Four Years Follow-up Study
Outcomes of Patients With Heart Failure Hospitalized in an Internal Medicine Unit - a Four Years Follow-up Study
In 2018, the investigators evaluated the treatment of 236 patients with heart failure (with preserved or reduced ejection fraction) before and after hospitalization in our internal medicine unit (from 2016 to 2017).
The investigators showed that patients, mainly elderly women with comorbidities, often had suboptimal heart failure treatment without an identified cause. The investigators tried, whenever possible, to optimize treatment before hospital discharge.
Our objective is now to analyze the 4-year outcome of these patients, including re-hospitalization for heart failure or death.
Inclusion criteria:
- Patients hospitalized in our Internal Medecine unit for acute heart failure or for another cause but with known chronic heart Failure
Exclusion criteria:
- Hemodilaysis, end stage kidney disease, heart failure cause by anuria, heart transplantation