Usefulness of Heart Failure Categories Based on Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction.
Malin ChristerssonStefan GustafssonErik LampaMatilda AlmstedtThomas CarsJohan BodegardGabriel ArefalkJohan SundströmPublished in: Journal of the American Heart Association (2024)
LVEF follows a normal distribution and has considerable variability over time, which may impose a risk for underuse of efficient treatment. The heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction category is especially inconstant. Assumptions of a patient's current LVEF should take this variability and the normal distribution of LVEF into account.
Keyphrases
- heart failure
- ejection fraction
- left ventricular
- aortic stenosis
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- acute heart failure
- case report
- acute myocardial infarction
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- atrial fibrillation
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- left atrial
- coronary artery disease
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- replacement therapy