Prognosis and Risk Stratification of Patients with Advanced Heart Failure (From PROBE)

In recent years, many prognostic scores have been developed for advanced chronic heart failure (CHF), but none of them is comprised of first and second level echocardiographic indexes. The aim was to create a new prognostic echocardiographic score for patients with advanced CHF. Patients with advanced CHF were analyzed by standard, 3D and speckle tracking echocardiography and followed prospectively for 2 ±0.7 years recording major adverse cardiac events (MACE): cardiovascular death, hospitalization for HF, emergency heart transplantation and left ventricular assist device or intra-aortic balloon pump implantation.
Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research