Advanced Heart Failure in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease
>90% of children born with CHD are expected to survive to adulthood because of enhancements in care for patients with congenital heart disease (CHD).
>90% of children born with CHD are expected to survive to adulthood because of enhancements in care for patients with congenital heart disease (CHD).
Nearly 50% of older adults take five or more medications, and at least one in five of these prescriptions is potentially inadequate.
The risk of sudden cardiac death in patients with heart failure has declined over time thanks to the sequential introduction of new treatments.
Acute myocarditis is correlated with cardiac arrhythmia in 25% of cases; ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF) constitute a third of these arrhythmias.
Visceral adiposity has been associated with altered microstructural properties of white matter in adolescents.