Approach To Heart Failure - An overview

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The topics covered in the presentation are as bellow

  1. General etiologies of cardiac failure
  2. Underlying cardiac disease
  3. Pathogenesis
  4. Forms of cardiac failure
  5. Approach to the patient
  6. Symptoms of heart failure
  7. Symptoms of predominant right-sided heart failure
  8. Brain natriuretic peptide (bnp)
  9. Framingham criteria for diagnosis of congestive heart failure
  10. Nyha  grading
  11. Staging of systolic hf
  12. Measures for symptom relief
  13. Role of diuretics
  14. Furosemide, bumetanide, and torsemide
  15. Potassium-sparing diuretics
  16. Ace inhibitor in cardiac failure
  17. Beta blockers
  18. Enhancement of cardiac contractility
  19. Sympathomimetic amines
  20. Phosphodiesterase inhibitors
  21. Survival benefit of different drugs
  22. Drugs increasing mortality
  23. Ventricular resynchronization
  24. Anticoagulants
  25. Surgical therapy
  26. Newer rx modalities for adhf
  27. Prognosis


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